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Trump announces ‘Operation Warp Speed,’ says U.S. could have coronavirus vaccine by January
Likening it to the national push to build the atomic bomb during World War II, President Trump on Friday announced Operation Warp Speed, a government coordinating effort aimed at securing a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year.
“Operation Warp Speed, that means big and it means fast,” Trump said from the White House Rose Garden. “A massive scientific and industrial, logistic endeavor unlike anything our country has seen since the Manhattan Project.”
Its objective is to finish developing and then manufacture and distribute a proven coronavirus vaccine as fast as possible. “We’d love to see if we can do it prior to the end of the year,” Trump said. “I think we’re going to have some very good results coming out very quickly.” The presentation was short on details but noted the initiative is evaluating roughly 100 vaccine candidates from all over the world and has identified more than 14 believed to be the most promising. Officials are working to narrow the list still further. “We have some really interesting choices to be made,” Trump said. The government is providing support and resources to safely expedite trials on those vaccine candidates, “moving on at record, record, record speed,” the President said. Trump confirmed the United States will invest in manufacturing all of the top vaccine candidates before they’re approved. Known as “at risk” production, the government will take on the financial costs, legal liability and clinical trial costs, with no guarantee of getting a usable vaccine. “That means they better come up with a good vaccine,” Trump said. Such extraordinary steps will allow the United States to have vaccine ready as soon as a specific candidate is signed off on as safe and effective by regulatory authorities. The military will be used to help distribute doses. ‘We’re getting ready so that when we get the good word that we have the vaccine, we have the formula, we have what we need, we’re ready to go, as opposed to taking years,” Trump said. Trump acknowledged the risk and expense but said, “we’ll be saving years if we do this properly.” The initiative brings together expertise from the National Institutes for Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies.The partnership also joins the resources of the Department of Health and Human Services together with the Department of Defense. The national project will bring together the best of American industry and innovation, the full resources of the United States government and the excellence and precision of the United States military, Trump said. In order to make a vaccine available to the entire American population by January, the Food and Drug Administration mayissue an emergency use authorization. Such orders allow unapproved medical products to be used during a public health crisis, without the benefit of the validated testing that would normally take place. “We’re working for a fully approved vaccine but we’ll also use … all of our regulatory tools appropriate to bring vaccine available for the entire American population by January,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar said at the news conference. “There’s never been an emergency use authorization for a vaccine before because it’s by and large a technology that is given to healthy people,” said Thomas Bollyky, who directs the global health program at the Council on Foreign Relations.
“It’ll go away at some point, it’ll go away,” he said. “Vaccine or no vaccine, we’re back.”