https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03626-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03626-1 > In particular, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03626-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03626-1 > In particular, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) was launched in 2017; its goal is to create the technological infrastructure needed for rapid and affordable development of vaccines against several of the viruses known to have epidemic potential, including MERS, Ebola and Zika. CEPI has partly funded work on SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, including that by Moderna and at Oxford. CEPI is where the idea for Operation Warp Speed came from... More generally though the article I reference is chock full of instances where without government funding and help we would never have had vaccines so quickly. The crackpot poster I replied to was trying to insinuate government did nothing and could do nothing to help. This is an absolutely incorrect assertion. We have vaccines because of government help and response in the early days (and years preceding!) of the pandemic.