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Thanks to Operation Warp Speed, the first 100m doses are paid for in the US, and at no cost. https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/explaining-operation-warp-speed/in

Thanks to Operation Warp Speed, the first 100m doses are paid for in the US, and at no cost. https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/explaining-operation-warp-speed/index.html https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/explaining-operation-warp-sp...

ceejayoz 6y ago
No direct consumer-facing cost. > HHS announced up to $1.95 billion in funds to Pfizer for the large-scale manufacturing and nationwide distribution of 100 million doses of their vaccine candidate. It's a sensible use of taxpayer funds, for sure, but Pfizer isn't doing it as a charitable work.
- potatoman22 6y ago
  People gotta get paid
elicash 6y ago
Yeah, this is one of those places where Congress (providing funding) and the administration (providing leadership) and the private sector (doing the actual work) were able to work together. I wish there were more examples of this type of thing. One area an effort like this is badly needed is for at-home rapid testing.
- tantalor 6y ago
  A lot of the "actual work" includes distribution, which the govt is handling through military.
  - elicash 6y ago
    Yours isn't an accurate picture of how the vaccine will be distributed. State and local governments are involved, health agencies in the federal government is involved. But private companies play the main role here, too: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/08/14/trump-administration-collaborates-mckesson-covid-19-vaccine-distribution.html https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/08/14/trump-administrati... As I understand it, the role of the military is mostly in planning logistics: Army Gen. Gustave F. Perna (who is the four-star general who is COO of Operation Warp Speed): “There will not be this vision that some have that there will be Army trucks driving through the streets delivering vaccines. The commercial industry knows how to do it.” https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dod-planning-every-logistical-detail-of-covid-vaccine-distribution https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dod-planning-every-logisti... So yeah, I think my summary -- that administration is playing a "leadership" role -- is quite right here, too. I think a better point would be to praise the work done by NIAID and others. Obviously I wasn't diminishing the role of these fantastic scientists, or the role of people like Dr. Fauci, only highlighting that this vaccine was developed in the private sector (with roles played at every level of government).
    - tantalor 6y ago
      Thanks, I definitely misunderstood what was happening here.

ceejayoz 6y ago

No direct consumer-facing cost. > HHS announced up to $1.95 billion in funds to Pfizer for the large-scale manufacturing and nationwide distribution of 100 million doses of their vaccine candidate. It's a sensible use of taxpayer funds, for sure, but Pfizer isn't doing it as a charitable work.

potatoman22 6y ago
People gotta get paid

elicash 6y ago

Yeah, this is one of those places where Congress (providing funding) and the administration (providing leadership) and the private sector (doing the actual work) were able to work together. I wish there were more examples of this type of thing. One area an effort like this is badly needed is for at-home rapid testing.

tantalor 6y ago
A lot of the "actual work" includes distribution, which the govt is handling through military.
- elicash 6y ago
  Yours isn't an accurate picture of how the vaccine will be distributed. State and local governments are involved, health agencies in the federal government is involved. But private companies play the main role here, too: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/08/14/trump-administration-collaborates-mckesson-covid-19-vaccine-distribution.html https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/08/14/trump-administrati... As I understand it, the role of the military is mostly in planning logistics: Army Gen. Gustave F. Perna (who is the four-star general who is COO of Operation Warp Speed): “There will not be this vision that some have that there will be Army trucks driving through the streets delivering vaccines. The commercial industry knows how to do it.” https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dod-planning-every-logistical-detail-of-covid-vaccine-distribution https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dod-planning-every-logisti... So yeah, I think my summary -- that administration is playing a "leadership" role -- is quite right here, too. I think a better point would be to praise the work done by NIAID and others. Obviously I wasn't diminishing the role of these fantastic scientists, or the role of people like Dr. Fauci, only highlighting that this vaccine was developed in the private sector (with roles played at every level of government).
  - tantalor 6y ago
    Thanks, I definitely misunderstood what was happening here.