While other pharmaceutical companies did take federal funds to develop a vaccine, Pfizer declined to do so, the only one of the major prospective developers to go it alone.Īt the same time, on July 22, Pfizer agreed to a $1.95 billion deal with the Trump administration “for large-scale production and nationwide delivery of 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States following the vaccine’s successful manufacture and approval.” Operation Warp Speed was started in the spring as “a public-private partnership to facilitate, at an unprecedented pace, the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 countermeasures,” according to the Trump administration’s own description of the program. Still, the issue is somewhat more complicated than what social media may lead one to believe. President-elect Joe Biden meets with members of the Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board in Wilmington, Del., on Monday. Trump will want to claim credit for any successes in the coming months, while his detractors will point to forces - private industry, in the Pfizer case - beyond his influence. Vaccines and therapeutics could radically change the course of the pandemic, but they have to be developed, manufactured and distributed. President-elect Biden, meanwhile, is moving ahead with a transition.Īll this is happening as coronavirus cases mount across the land. Trump has still refused to concede the presidential election.
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The row over Warp Speed is part of what will be a near-certain dispute between the Trump and Joe Biden camps over how to handle the pandemic. The assertion infuriated supporters of the president, who had been promising a vaccine for months, and was also challenged by some who pointed out that the company is on track to receive almost $2 billion from the administration for production. government, or from anyone,” Kathrin Jansen, the company’s vice president for vaccine research, told the Times. We have never taken any money from the U.S. (John Nacion/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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