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ICYMI: Washington Examiner: "Biden’s heralded vaccine goal just one day ahead of Trump’s criticized plan"
Despite White House chest-thumping and media praise for his plan to have enough vaccinations for all Americans by the end of last month, President Joe Biden’s goal was just a day better than former President Donald Trump’s plan and has followed the former administration’s script nearly exactly.
That plan, which cut vaccination development and distribution from the normal 10 years to just 10 months, was a “great American success story of grit and innovation,” according to a new analysis of “Operation Warp Speed,” Trump’s gamble to shake up the process.
In a new insider analysis, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, a former coronavirus task force member and national security adviser to task force chief former Vice President Mike Pence, said the Trump team cast aside doubts and missed opportunities by previous administrations to work with drug companies and distributors to speed COVID-19 vaccines.
Trump, Kellogg told Secrets, "knew he had a serious issue going on, but he didn't want to project panic or concern. You want to project confidence going forward, and he did that."
The analysis, provided to Secrets today, said Operation Warp Speed helped to save $2.4 trillion from the costs of typical vaccine development and got shots into arms by Jan. 11, just one year after the World Health Organization identified the disease originated in China.
“OWS shattered the status quo. Its impact can only be fully understood when viewed in the context of where the country and the medical community were in terms of vaccine development and pandemic planning when COVID-19 struck,” said the report, produced by the pro-Trump America First Policy Institute and co-written by Kellogg, who heads the institute’s Center for American Security.
The 25-page report does not directly criticize previous administrations and their lack of preparation for a worldwide pandemic, nor mention critics of Trump’s vaccine plan, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Trump, however, in a statement Thursday amid the release of Fauci emails, noted, “Fauci also didn’t put an emphasis on speed of vaccine production because he thought it would take 3, 4, or maybe even 5 years to create. I got it done in less than 9 months with Operation Warp Speed. In retrospect, the vaccine is saving the world.”
The analysis of Operation Warp Speed did note that the Biden administration has not continued the close cooperation with states implemented by Pence and has only changed the goal of full vaccination of the nation by one day.
“The Biden administration has largely carried on many of the operational components of OWS, including nearly the same vaccine rollout plan with a target of all adults having access to the vaccine by the end of May -- a one day difference from the OWS goal of making 300 million doses available by June 1, 2021,” wrote Kellogg and two doctors with the institute, Jacob Olidort and Heidi Overton.
The analysis said that while following Trump’s plan, Biden has only made tweaks, presumably a sign that it is the model for pandemic responses of the future.
“The Biden administration is utilizing many of the same plans, on-the-ground personnel, and agreements as OWS. The current administration has implemented an increased role for a federally centralized component that has, to date, only accounted for a small fraction of the total vaccinations. In short, the current COVID-19 vaccine delivery system in the U.S. appears to rely heavily on the operational models established by OWS for public-private partnerships and jurisdiction-led vaccine efforts, with the new federal programs providing additional contributions on the margin. As such, it is not surprising that the current trajectory of administered vaccines also matches the outlined goals and projections of OWS,” said the new analysis.
While available for all, the Biden administration has fallen short of its goal to vaccinate all people in the U.S., and the president declared June a "national month of action" to finish the job.
Dr. Overton, in the call with Secrets, also noted that while the Trump team took hits from the media and other critics that it didn't follow science, the Pence task force challenged science and the medical community like never before.
"Not only were we following advice from medical experts in the room, but we were pushing science to see what could you do with innovation," she said. "There should be a lot of credit to we were actually advancing science beyond what the nation's leading medical experts thought that we could do," said Overton
Because it worked, Kellogg said that Operation Warp Speed should be the model for future national campaigns, one that combined a whole of government approach with private industry to speed solutions.
“Lessons learned from the innovative OWS approach,” said the analysis, “are transferable to addressing other pressing national challenges, such as cybersecurity. These lessons could also inform the associated budgetary lines and bureaucratic processes, including intellectual property protections to maximize effectiveness. As exemplified by OWS, the measure of success of future responses will ultimately rest on the speed and quality of the effort to protect the public. Moreover, the American people now know that unprecedented, successful innovation that can reverse the tide of a pandemic is possible through investment, public-private partnerships, dynamic leadership, and a ‘whole-of-America’ response.”
And Overton added, "This was a really incredible achievement that belongs to really, not just the Trump administration for putting it forward, but it is a mobilization of Americans in a way that really draws a parallel to World War II and pulling the private sector in and getting people to volunteer in vaccine clinical trials. And so it really was a whole of America effort where Americans played a big part in making this possible."
You can read the entirety of our Center for a Healthy America's Operation Warp Speed Analysis here.
That plan, which cut vaccination development and distribution from the normal 10 years to just 10 months, was a “great American success story of grit and innovation,” according to a new analysis of “Operation Warp Speed,” Trump’s gamble to shake up the process.
In a new insider analysis, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, a former coronavirus task force member and national security adviser to task force chief former Vice President Mike Pence, said the Trump team cast aside doubts and missed opportunities by previous administrations to work with drug companies and distributors to speed COVID-19 vaccines.
Trump, Kellogg told Secrets, "knew he had a serious issue going on, but he didn't want to project panic or concern. You want to project confidence going forward, and he did that."
The analysis, provided to Secrets today, said Operation Warp Speed helped to save $2.4 trillion from the costs of typical vaccine development and got shots into arms by Jan. 11, just one year after the World Health Organization identified the disease originated in China.
“OWS shattered the status quo. Its impact can only be fully understood when viewed in the context of where the country and the medical community were in terms of vaccine development and pandemic planning when COVID-19 struck,” said the report, produced by the pro-Trump America First Policy Institute and co-written by Kellogg, who heads the institute’s Center for American Security.
The 25-page report does not directly criticize previous administrations and their lack of preparation for a worldwide pandemic, nor mention critics of Trump’s vaccine plan, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Trump, however, in a statement Thursday amid the release of Fauci emails, noted, “Fauci also didn’t put an emphasis on speed of vaccine production because he thought it would take 3, 4, or maybe even 5 years to create. I got it done in less than 9 months with Operation Warp Speed. In retrospect, the vaccine is saving the world.”
The analysis of Operation Warp Speed did note that the Biden administration has not continued the close cooperation with states implemented by Pence and has only changed the goal of full vaccination of the nation by one day.
“The Biden administration has largely carried on many of the operational components of OWS, including nearly the same vaccine rollout plan with a target of all adults having access to the vaccine by the end of May -- a one day difference from the OWS goal of making 300 million doses available by June 1, 2021,” wrote Kellogg and two doctors with the institute, Jacob Olidort and Heidi Overton.
The analysis said that while following Trump’s plan, Biden has only made tweaks, presumably a sign that it is the model for pandemic responses of the future.
“The Biden administration is utilizing many of the same plans, on-the-ground personnel, and agreements as OWS. The current administration has implemented an increased role for a federally centralized component that has, to date, only accounted for a small fraction of the total vaccinations. In short, the current COVID-19 vaccine delivery system in the U.S. appears to rely heavily on the operational models established by OWS for public-private partnerships and jurisdiction-led vaccine efforts, with the new federal programs providing additional contributions on the margin. As such, it is not surprising that the current trajectory of administered vaccines also matches the outlined goals and projections of OWS,” said the new analysis.
While available for all, the Biden administration has fallen short of its goal to vaccinate all people in the U.S., and the president declared June a "national month of action" to finish the job.
Dr. Overton, in the call with Secrets, also noted that while the Trump team took hits from the media and other critics that it didn't follow science, the Pence task force challenged science and the medical community like never before.
"Not only were we following advice from medical experts in the room, but we were pushing science to see what could you do with innovation," she said. "There should be a lot of credit to we were actually advancing science beyond what the nation's leading medical experts thought that we could do," said Overton
Because it worked, Kellogg said that Operation Warp Speed should be the model for future national campaigns, one that combined a whole of government approach with private industry to speed solutions.
“Lessons learned from the innovative OWS approach,” said the analysis, “are transferable to addressing other pressing national challenges, such as cybersecurity. These lessons could also inform the associated budgetary lines and bureaucratic processes, including intellectual property protections to maximize effectiveness. As exemplified by OWS, the measure of success of future responses will ultimately rest on the speed and quality of the effort to protect the public. Moreover, the American people now know that unprecedented, successful innovation that can reverse the tide of a pandemic is possible through investment, public-private partnerships, dynamic leadership, and a ‘whole-of-America’ response.”
And Overton added, "This was a really incredible achievement that belongs to really, not just the Trump administration for putting it forward, but it is a mobilization of Americans in a way that really draws a parallel to World War II and pulling the private sector in and getting people to volunteer in vaccine clinical trials. And so it really was a whole of America effort where Americans played a big part in making this possible."
You can read the entirety of our Center for a Healthy America's Operation Warp Speed Analysis here.