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“Project Next Gen” — the long-anticipated follow-up to “Operation Warp Speed”
White House Launching $5 billion Program to Speed Coronavirus Vaccines
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By Dan Diamond
‘Project Next Gen’ would succeed ‘Operation Warp Speed’ with a mission to develop next-generation vaccines and therapies.
The Biden administration is launching a $5 billion-plus program to accelerate development of new coronavirus vaccines and treatments, seeking to better protect against a still-mutating virus, as well as other coronaviruses that might threaten us in the future.
“Project Next Gen” — the long-anticipated follow-up to “Operation Warp Speed,” the Trump-era program that sped coronavirus vaccines to patients in 2020 — would take a similar approach to partnering with private-sector companies to expedite development of vaccines and therapies. Scientists, public heath experts and politicians have called for the initiative, warning that existing therapies have steadily lost their effectiveness and that new ones are needed.
“It’s been very clear to us that the market on this is moving very slowly,” Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus coordinator, said Monday. “There’s a lot that government can do, the administration can do, to speed up those tools … for the American people.”
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The Biden administration’s vaccine accelerator was originally dubbed “Project Covid Shield,” and some GOP lawmakers had suggested launching an “Operation Warp Speed 2.0” to build on the Trump administration’s effort and signal a bipartisan approach. But White House officials wanted some distance from the Trump effort...
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/04/10/operation-warp-speed-successor-project-nextgen/
White House Launching $5 billion Program to Speed Coronavirus Vaccines
[snip]
By Dan Diamond
‘Project Next Gen’ would succeed ‘Operation Warp Speed’ with a mission to develop next-generation vaccines and therapies.
The Biden administration is launching a $5 billion-plus program to accelerate development of new coronavirus vaccines and treatments, seeking to better protect against a still-mutating virus, as well as other coronaviruses that might threaten us in the future.
“Project Next Gen” — the long-anticipated follow-up to “Operation Warp Speed,” the Trump-era program that sped coronavirus vaccines to patients in 2020 — would take a similar approach to partnering with private-sector companies to expedite development of vaccines and therapies. Scientists, public heath experts and politicians have called for the initiative, warning that existing therapies have steadily lost their effectiveness and that new ones are needed.
“It’s been very clear to us that the market on this is moving very slowly,” Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus coordinator, said Monday. “There’s a lot that government can do, the administration can do, to speed up those tools … for the American people.”
.
.
The Biden administration’s vaccine accelerator was originally dubbed “Project Covid Shield,” and some GOP lawmakers had suggested launching an “Operation Warp Speed 2.0” to build on the Trump administration’s effort and signal a bipartisan approach. But White House officials wanted some distance from the Trump effort...
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Article continues:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/04/10/operation-warp-speed-successor-project-nextgen/
