Prognosis
Operation Warp Speed Hedges Bets on Different Vaccine Platforms
Moncef Slaoui
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The White House has secured eight experimental coronavirus vaccines through its “Operation Warp Speed” effort, seeking to hedge its bets on different technologies, according to a top adviser to the program.
Moncef Slaoui, the operation’s chief adviser, and Matthew Hepburn, a Department of Defense official, outlined the federal criteria for selecting and securing vaccine candidates in an essay in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.