On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first COVID-19 vaccine in the United States, and Operation Warp Speed (OWS) and its private sector partners immediately began shipping vaccines to sites designated by states and other public health jurisdictions.
With about 3 million doses on the way, this means that health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities across America will begin receiving vaccines in the coming days.
This past spring, experts predicted that a vaccine was at least a year or year and a half away. Yet, within a year, we have one vaccine authorized, millions of doses being shipped, and another vaccine under review by the FDA.
Beating experts’ expectations not by luck, but because of deliberate planning by President Trump’s administration through Operation Warp Speed (OWS).
American researchers and partners around the world began research and development on COVID-19 vaccines back in January.
HHS Secretary Azar explains how Operation Warp Speed delivered a COVID vaccine in record time: READ HERE