Too Many Generals? The Potential Downside Of ‘Operation Warp Speed’

A Manhattan Project-style campaign to accelerate COVID-19 treatments could help end the pandemic. But it also brings another set of layers – and yet a new group of leaders – into an already complex network.

Aerial overhead view of trailer trucks delivering a vaccine. 3D rendering

The mission of the US Department of Health & Human Services’ “Operation Warp Speed” is not lacking in ambition: the effort to accelerated COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics was hailed by President Trump as “a massive scientific, industrial, and logistical endeavor unlike anything our country has seen since the Manhattan Project” during the formal unveiling event at the White House on May 15.

Still, the event felt a bit anticlimactic: the project had been discussed widely in general terms previously, and the top leadership – former GlaxoSmithKline executive Moncef Slaoui as scientific lead and US Army General Gustave Perna as head of logistics and operations – had been disclosed in the days before

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