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12. Moderna was a part of Warp Speed
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 12:27 PM
Feb 2021

You are correct that Pfizer was not part of Warp Speed, but are incorrect about Moderna. Moderna was one of seven projects to receive government funding for vaccine development - University of Oxford in partnership with AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative in partnership with Merck (two projects), Moderna, Novavax, and a Sanofi / GlaxoSmithKline joint project.

Both of the Merck/IAVI projects have since been terminated and Sanofi/GlaxoSmithKline are currently reformulating their vaccine due to the low efficacy in elderly people during their Phase 2 trials.

Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca probably could have brought their vaccines to market without government funding, though I'm much less certain Moderna would have been able to privately raise more than a billion dollars to fund their research and clinic trials.

As for the vaccine distribution part of Operation Warp Speed - that was a hot mess.

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The real Operation Warp Speed that he worked on was January 6 dalton99a Feb 2021 #1
Yup. orangecrush Feb 2021 #2
Things are already trending better gratuitous Feb 2021 #3
It was intentional. 2naSalit Feb 2021 #5
I hesitate to say that that's the worst of it gratuitous Feb 2021 #7
Trump did as little as possible Johnny2X2X Feb 2021 #4
This is not true at all DeminPennswoods Feb 2021 #6
There are other materials neccessary edhopper Feb 2021 #8
Only Sort Of, DP ProfessorGAC Feb 2021 #9
Pfizer wasn't but Moderna was DeminPennswoods Feb 2021 #11
Moderna was a part of Warp Speed Massacure Feb 2021 #12
The lost 20 million too. Well 20 million disappeared. Don't know that they are lost. LizBeth Feb 2021 #10
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