![]() Meeting it required global strategies and global coalitions at every stage-from prevention to warning to building and sharing countermeasures. A belated initiative improvised by career bureaucrats, outside experts, and administration gadflies, Operation Warp Speed was successful by managing biopharma acquisition like a national security enterprise, with advance purchase of promising vaccines and by managing manufacturing and distribution. ![]() Pfizer’s R&D, for example, did not need or use Operation Warp Speed. It didn’t score its main success in high science, in vaccine research and development. The one great policy success, Operation Warp Speed, is not well understood. ![]() Poor communication aggravated the breakdown of public trust and confidence and undermined efforts to combat misinformation. Those failures and tensions fed the toxic politics that further divided the country in a crisis rather than bringing it together. ![]() Incompetence and policy failures, including the failure of federal executive leadership, produced bad outcomes, flying blind, and resorting to blunt instruments. There is a common view that politics-a ‘Red response’ and a ‘Blue response’-were the main obstacle to protecting citizens, not competence and policy failures. ![]()
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