Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership program to speed up COVID-19 vaccine development and supervise its distribution, was established by former President Trump in the early months of the pandemic. The current White House chief of staff claimed earlier that the Biden administration’s mass vaccination effort had to “start from scratch”.
Former Operation Warp Speed chief health advisor Dr. Moncef Slaoui argued that 90% of the current administration’s coronavirus vaccine rollout plan is the same as what the Trump administration had proposed.
Slaoui’s comments come after February’s claims that Biden inherited “no plan” in regard to the mass vaccination campaign.
Slaoui explained that the first priority of Operation Warp Speed was “to accelerate the development of the vaccine.”
Slaoui emphasized that 90% of that plan covered “manufacturing, supply, and distribution,” but he credited FEMA and sports arenas as excellent examples of how to “accelerate” the administration of shots not covered by the original plan.
He also disclosed that, prior to the new administration assuming office, Operation Warp Speed had held talks with Merck, a rival of Johnson & Johnson, about the possibility of using their equipment to help boost vaccine production.
In response to Fauci and Senator Rand Paul’s recent sparring over the use of masks even after vaccination, he specifically condemned the vaccine’s “politicization.”
And for those who have not yet been vaccinated, Slaoui described wearing masks as “an act of civility.”
On Friday, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients noted that the United States has reached its goal of administering 100 million doses in 58 days, instead of the previously planned timeline of the first 100 days of the Biden administration.
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