Operation Warp Speed Chief Adviser Resigns at Biden’s Request

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The person that helped us get vaccines quicker than any other time in history that I know of..


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Operation Warp Speed Chief Adviser Resigns at Biden’s Request
BY GARY DU January 14, 2021 Updated: January 14, 2021biggersmaller Print
Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the chief scientific adviser of Operation Warp Speed, said on Wednesday that he’s submitted his resignation at the request of President-elect Joe Biden.

“As you know, I’m very supportive of this upcoming administration and, really, of course, of the operation and its mission and I will be doing everything I can to help them succeed. As part of that process, which I understand, they have asked me to resign from my role as the operation’s chief scientific adviser,” Slaoui told CNBC on Tuesday.

Slaoui said he submitted his resignation on Tuesday and thanked the Trump administration for the opportunity to help the country, the people, and the people of the world.

Operation Warp Speed is the Trump administration’s program to coordinate the resources of the federal government and the private sector to develop and distribute CCP virus vaccines to Americans in a timely manner.

Slaoui said he will stay in the position until next month to help with the transition, as the in-coming president has yet to name a new chief scientific adviser for the federal government’s vaccine distribution effort.

Slaoui said he will support the leadership appointed by the Biden administration. He accepted “a contractual arrangement” that would allow him to leave his post on Jan. 21.

“As I had said, actually, early in December, prior to any approval of vaccines, that once two vaccines would be approved and two medicines would be approved … it would probably be time for me to move on and go back to my private life and private business,” Slaoui said.

CNBC admitted that the speed of the vaccine’s development, which was supervised by Dr. Slaoui, exceeded expectations, calling it “the fastest vaccine development in history.”

Currently, two vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna have been authorized in the United States, showing 95 percent efficacy in preventing disease. Johnson & Johnson is working on a vaccine with the potential for just one dose and is expected within weeks.

Slaoui was criticized for his ties to the pharmaceutical industry when he took his current job. He resigned from the board of Moderna and sold his share of the company, but he didn’t sell his share in GlaxoSmithKline, where he’s been working for 30 years, calling those stock his retirement.

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People still try to claim Operation warp speed didn't help produce the vaccine in record time this is how I generally reply to those people:



(THEIR NAME) you should educate yourself instead of just reading what the associated press feeds you. EVen other main stream liberal media, universities, and Dr Fauci admitted it had a significant impact in producing the vaccine faster than any other before.

Operation Warp Speed, a Trump administration initiative to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines as fast as possible, should be lauded as a successful endeavour in what has otherwise been a poor effort to deal with the coronavirus, experts say.

"No doubt, Operation Warp Speed is a huge success," said Tinglong Dai, associate professor of Operations Management and Business Analytics at Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School in Baltimore.

"You can like or hate the Trump administration, but no doubt, it's a huge success — unprecedented success."

Jesse Goodman, the former chief scientist of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, agreed that the U.S. government deserves credit for the high priority placed on Operation Warp Speed.

"This is a bright spot in the pandemic response. I mean, the rest of it has been dismal," said Goodman, who is also director of Georgetown University's Center on Medical Product Access, Safety and Stewardship.

Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also lauded Operation Warp Speed for being a "success — certainly in the arena of vaccines, it's been a success" in his remarks at a recent virtual summit organized by the medical news site Stat.

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Launched in May, Operation Warp Speed (OWS) is a government initiated private/public $10 billion US program to help provide support to companies in the development, manufacturing and distribution of 300 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, with the aim of having initial doses ready by January 2021.

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The experts agree that Operation Warp Speed played a significant role in Moderna's development of a potential vaccine.

"Without OWS, there would be no Moderna vaccine. Period," Dai said.

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Allison Winnike, president of the Texas-based Immunization Partnership, an organization providing advocacy and information about immunization initiatives, said that Moderna benefited tremendously from Operation Warp Speed, in part, by receiving close to $1 billion to support its vaccine development and clinical trials.

"That really got them to where they are today," she said.

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As well, the U.S. government signed an agreement with Moderna as part of the Warp Speed initiative committing to the purchase of 100 million doses once a vaccine was approved.

The clinical trial network to test Moderna's vaccine was also funded by money that came from Warp Speed, Goodman said.

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