Last year, it unveiled a national strategy to develop pharmaceutical firms' capacity to create vaccines within 130 days of a pandemic emergency declaration.
In the case of COVID-19 vaccines, it took about a year for governments to deploy the jab at scale after scientists sequenced the virus.
Scientists identified a vaccine target-fragments of the spike protein that the virus uses to access cells-by early January 2020, even before the WHO declared a worldwide pandemic.
A promising vaccine target would be needed immediately after a disease outbreak for the Biden pandemic plan to work.
High-quality randomized, controlled studies are needed to make sure the vaccine works.
Operation Warp Speed cut red tape so that vaccine manufacturers could conduct these studies rapidly.
Because of the pressure to produce a vaccine within 130 days, President Biden's pandemic plan will likely force randomized trials on future vaccines to cut the same corners.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-plan-lock-you-down-for-130-days/
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