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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's 'Operation Warp Speed' Aims to Rush Coronavirus Vaccine
Called Operation Warp Speed, the program will pull together private pharmaceutical companies, government agencies and the military to try to cut the development time for a vaccine by as much as eight months, according to two people familiar with the matter.
As part of the arrangement, taxpayers will shoulder much of the financial risk that vaccine candidates may fail, instead of drug companies.
The projects goal is to have 300 million doses of vaccine available by January, according to one administration official. There is no precedent for such rapid development of a vaccine.
President Donald Trumps top medical advisers, led by the infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, have repeatedly said that a coronavirus vaccine wont be ready for 12 to 18 months at best. Until then, White House guidelines envision some economically damaging social-distancing practices maintained even as the U.S. begins to resume a more normal social and business life.
Last month, Trump directed Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to speed development of a vaccine, and administration officials have been meeting on the effort for three to four weeks, one of the people said. A meeting on the project was scheduled at the White House on Wednesday.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-operation-warp-speed-aims-to-rush-coronavirus-vaccine/ar-BB13nXS9?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp
Holy crap, they really are going full Stalin on us. We get to pay for our own cure, the drug companies are off the hook for any damages, and it's going to kill a whole lot of us. USA! USA! USA! USA!
mwooldri
(10,291 posts)I say this because they have already ordered a million doses from a manufacturer in India - and they're about to start Stage 2/3 testing. Whereas most everyone else is on Stage 1 at best.
brewens
(13,400 posts)if it's good to go that way. Now if they are just nice enough to share some with us. I actually couldn't blame them if they didn't. I wouldn't even blink if Boris demanded Trump be nicer to them. The ol' quid pro quo as it were.
HarlanPepper
(2,042 posts)But drug companies have been indemnified by the govt for a long time with regard to vaccine liability. This is nothing new. Rushing something to market in a situation as serious as this is, is new. The upside is Trump couldnt organize a trip to the mailbox so its unlikely to play out the way he hopes.
Initech
(99,915 posts)I'd far more likely trust the Oxford vaccine before the Trump one, given his affection for hawking cheap, crappy merchandise.
HarlanPepper
(2,042 posts)So Dump cant take credit for it.
Squinch
(50,774 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)This is truly becoming a Humpty Dumpty moment. While the quest for a vaccine is important, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the Desperate Orange Cockwomble is taking center stage with it, as usual.
We already know that it can be a while before a safe vaccine is developed and that it will also be a challenge to come up with enough doses and distribute it. Hopefully some viper company won't make it expensive enough to keep it from certain people.
Operation Warp Speed? Ah, shouldn't that been the theme for actions taken a few months back when this was known about and had been warned of for so long? Then it was Operation Brick Wall and the Snail and Molasses Initiative.
The egg has fallen off the wall, so to speak. They can try all the crazy glue they want, but I don't see it being restored.
C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)Do they know Warp Speed is fantasy?
redstatebluegirl
(12,264 posts)Without being thoroughly tested I'm not getting one. If Trump hurries it along it would be like drinking Clorox. Nothing he says is good is good it may kill you.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)Will be his fault.
Initech
(99,915 posts)Nothing is ever his fault.
kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)Disaffected
(4,508 posts)the question is, how many risks and shortcuts will be taken to meet the goal?? It's a virtual certainty that Dr Dump et al will be willing to risk a lot (of other people's welfare & lives) to get it out the door ASAP so he can claim credit. Even better to announce its successful development & beginning of deployment before November. This sounds like Dump's latest Hail Mary to rescue his election chances.
Initech
(99,915 posts)You can count on that.
Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)Trump will fuck it up. He always fucks it up.
Disaffected
(4,508 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,111 posts)It's not how any of this works.