Operation Warp Speed: What The Logo Can Tell Us About Successful Pandemic Preparedness

Operation Warp Speed’s seal was a combination of ’70s design, au courant clip art, and 18th Century militarism, but just like the oddly assembled organization that it represented, the thing worked.

Operation Warp Speed
THE GOAL WAS TO GO WHERE NO GOVERNMENT AGENCY HAD GONE BEFORE • Source: Alamy

Operation Warp Speed has not been called “Operation Warp Speed” since the beginning of the Biden administration, but as the one-year anniversary of the authorization of the first COVID-19 vaccine approaches, In Vivo is reflecting on what is widely considered the most effective aspects of the US government’s pandemic response.

Launched by the Trump administration as an effort to collaborate with private industry to develop vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics in...

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