Operation Warp Speed 2.0 White Paper

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About 1Day Sooner
1Day Sooner was founded in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in order to repre-
sent volunteers for COVID-19 challenge trials who wanted to rapidly accelerate the
deployment of the most effective COVID-19 vaccines possible. Since then, 1Day Soon-
er continues to represent volunteers for high impact medical studies, while also ad-
vocating for other approaches to accelerate the arrival of medical countermeasures.
Warp Speed 2.0 Campaign
Operation Warp Speed was the US government effort to concentrate funding and reg-
ulatory support on the development of the COVID-19 vaccines. With OWS, the world
saw successful, cutting-edge mRNA vaccines deployed in record time—not even a year
after the pandemic was declared. 1Day Sooner advocates for the adoption of the Op-
eration Warp Speed model for other diseases, especially ones we know have high pan-
demic-causing potential.
For more information, please visit 1daysooner.org
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CONTENTS
Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Summary of Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. The Warp Speed Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3. Project NextGen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4. Warp Speed for NextGen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Operation Warp Speed revolutionized vaccine development. In the spring of
2020, President Trump announced the $18 billion public-private partner-
ship to accelerate the development and subsequent production of vaccines
against COVID-19. On December 11, less than 8 months after the program’s
announcement, the first vaccine was authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA). Prior to Operation Warp Speed, the fastest vaccine
to have ever been developed took four years.
The public health and economic benefits of the Operation Warp Speed
vaccines are indisputable. Within just 6 months of their authorization, it
has been estimated that the Operation Warp Speed vaccines saved nearly
140,000 American lives. The magnitude of the benefits were so great that
it’s estimated that Operation Warp Speed would still have paid for itself if
it had cut the duration of the pandemic by merely 12 hours.
Despite the incredible achievement of these vaccines, COVID-19 continues
to pose a substantial problem three years later with the continuing threat of
emerging variants. Furthermore, experts warn of the increasing likelihood
of new pandemics, with estimates that the annual probability of an extreme
epidemic could increase threefold in the coming decades.
The Biden Administration’s Project NextGen—a $5 billion initiative to ac-
celerate next generation COVID-19 vaccines and treatments—is a great leap
forward toward qua

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