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Warp Speed had nothing to do with this. Pfizer/BioNTech weren’t part of Warp Speed. And the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines were ready and had begun trials before
by addicted 5y ago
Warp Speed had nothing to do with this.
Pfizer/BioNTech weren’t part of Warp Speed. And the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines were ready and had begun trials before they were part of Warp speed.
The only vaccine it might have had an impact on was potentially Moderna. But even Moderna had the vaccine ready well before the Trump administration even believed that the virus did not only affect Chinese people.
Finally, Warp Speed was not a brilliant new idea they came up with. It was part of the pandemic response plan the Obama administration had prepared many years ago. The difference is that if they had actually followed the plan warp speed would have been activated well before.
Pretty much the only thing that the Trump administration can be uniquely credited for is picking the name. Which, as we can see from the fact that the majority of current vaccine skeptics are worried about the speed at which the vaccines were created, was a terrible choice for a name.