This Is How We’ll Vaccinate the World Against COVID-19https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/this-is-how-well-vaccinate-the-world-against-covid19In a triumph of science, the first two large-scale trials to report the effectiveness of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2—the deadly, highly contagious virus that causes COVID-19—were both great successes right out of the gate. In November, the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and the much younger biotech company Moderna both reported that their vaccines were about 95 percent effective in preventing cases of COVID-19. The news came just 10 months after the virus was first isolated and sequenced in a lab in China.
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Throughout 2020, vaccine producers and their suppliers constructed new factories and otherwise increased their capacity while governments, international agencies, and philanthropies signed billion-dollar contracts, preordering doses by the hundreds of millions. In the United States, the federal initiative known as Operation Warp Speed deployed a budget of more than US $12 billion to develop, test, and mass-produce new vaccines along with the vials, syringes, and other materials needed to deliver them to an anxious populace.
This is probably the most informative single article on the vaccines effort I've seen. While it avoids mention of
Orange Man Who Must Not Be Named, it gives a pretty good view of the scope and some of the depth of Operation Warp Speed and Covid vaccine technologies.
