Prognosis
Trump’s ‘Operation Warp Speed’ Aims to Rush Coronavirus Vaccine
- Project targets enough doses for most Americans by January
- Fauci has said vaccine will take 12 to 18 months to develop
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The Trump administration is organizing a Manhattan Project-style effort to drastically cut the time needed to develop a coronavirus vaccine, with a goal of making enough doses for most Americans by year’s end.
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.