Was Trump's Operation Warp Speed a success?

The COVID-19 pandemic and the government's response to it cost millions of lives and trillions of dollars and resulted in a major hit to global freedom. What should governments, private companies, and individuals do differently next time disaster strikes?Show more

Alec Stapp, co-founder of the Institute for Progress, has assembled a team devoted to analyzing and applying the lessons of the pandemic. The institute has published papers arguing that Operation Warp Speed was a success that should be duplicated, for greater investment in indoor filtration, and for better biosurveillance. Join Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe this Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern on YouTube or Facebook for a live conversation with Stapp about how to prevent the next global catastrophe.

WaPo: Opinion - Biden’s vaccine project needs to be more like Operation Warp Speed - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/02/biden-vaccines-next-gen-operation-warp-speed/

Indiana University/RAND study: Vaccines may have averted up to 140,000 US deaths - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9937640/

GAO: Operation Warp Speed analysis - https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-21-319.pdf

Eric Topol on slowing FDA approval until after the 2020 election - https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1314979190555340800?s=20

Institute for Progress: How to re-use the Operation Warp Speed model - https://progress.institute/how-to-reuse-the-operation-warp-speed-model/

Institute for Progress: Research into far-UVC could prevent future pandemics - https://progress.institute/response-to-the-epas-request-for-information-on-better-indoor-air-quality-management/

Institute for Progress: Weighing the cost of the pandemic - https://progress.institute/weighing-the-cost-of-the-pandemic/

Our World in Data: Vaccine innovation by type - https://ourworldindata.org/vaccination

Our World in Data: Land use by energy source - https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source

Alec Stapp in The Atlantic: What Many Progressives Get Wrong About Climate Change - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/capitalism-clean-energy-technology-permitting/671545/

Institute for Progress: The Case for High-Skilled Immigration - https://progress.institute/the-case-for-high-skilled-immigration/