Operation Warp Speed Slow to Ramp Up COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s program to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine development and distribution, succeeded on the development component, but is failing in the early stages of distribution. The program’s goal was to have 40 million doses, enough for 20 million people to be fully vaccinated, by the end of the year—tomorrow. To date, about 11.4 million have been distributed and about 2.1 million have been administered.