![]() ![]() ![]() That’s because the muted slowdown of Operation Warp Speed shows that we’re on track to forget the lessons of Covid - and be just as flat-footed when the next pandemic inevitably comes. Kessler’s departure barely made news, but it should have. Last week, David Kessler, who ran the vaccine distribution operation under the early Biden administration, left the White House, marking what Axios called the “symbolic end of Operation Warp Speed.” We also could have learned a great deal from Operation Warp Speed - but we mostly haven’t bothered. ![]() We achieved a great deal with Operation Warp Speed, including proving that the US was still capable of rising to meet a crisis. They don’t dampen transmission enough to bring about the end of the pandemic that we all longed for, but they make you much less likely to die of it, saved millions of lives in total, and enabled life to mostly return to normalcy without mass deaths just a year after the pandemic began. One of the biggest accomplishments of the Trump administration - and yes, there were accomplishments - was Operation Warp Speed, the public-private effort to rapidly develop Covid vaccines.īut it’s the rare accomplishment in Washington that almost no one wants to take credit for: Democrats are loath to admit Trump did anything right, and many Republicans think - or tell their voters they think - that Covid vaccines are dangerous or the vaccines don’t matter anyway, and don’t want Trump credited for his administration’s substantial role in making them available in record time.īut, of course, the Covid vaccines were enormously good. ![]()
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