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Why Trump's Operation Warp Speed is credited with helping race for COVID-19 vaccine

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/operation-warp-speed-trump-pfizer-moderna-vaccine-1.5806820

While Goodman said Operation Warp Speed is certainly a success, he criticized the Trump administration for being in denial about the pandemic and downplaying its seriousness. Indeed, getting OWS off the ground was done in anything but warp speed, he said.

It took months, he said, before the U.S. government got investing in vaccines in earnest.

"Can you imagine where we could have been had these billions of additional dollars and investment had started kicking in January?" he said.

"I think we could be significantly further along if there hadn't been that really kind of desire to just wish the pandemic away."