!”‘A 15-year, overnight success story’The public-private partnership created through Operation Warp Speed is not an idea the administration invented. Operation Warp Speed would ultimately bet on six efforts — Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca-University of Oxford, Johnson & Johnson, Novavax, and Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline. Marks, a Star Trek fan, and a small group of government officials had been privately calling the project Operation Warp Speed, based on the term “warp speed” popularized by the Star Trek series. At one point, when 60 electricians were needed at one facility, Operation Warp Speed used the Defense Production Act to get them. “I would say it’s a historical moment,” Kathrin Jansen, Pfizer’s head of vaccine research and development, said in an interview.

Source: Washington Post December 14, 2020 13:08 UTC