![]() ![]() That's when it would start to get complicated because if approved, the Pfizer vaccine will require patients to receive two separate shots - 21 days apart. General Gus Perna: Is the day that- we deliver the first round of vaccine- for Pfizer. On his whiteboard is one possible scenario – the all important approval by the Food and Drug Administration of a vaccine developed by Pfizer, followed by approval of another from Moderna. General Gus PernaĪfter a career as an Army supply officer, General Gus Perna was two months away from retirement when President Trump tapped him last May to lead Operation Warp Speed. I hold myself 100% personally accountable to that end. Operation Warp Speed preps for COVID-19 vaccine delivery upon FDA approvalĭavid Martin: So if this distribution of vaccine is- doesn't go according to plan, where does the buck stop?.That would give this country what it badly needs right now – a shot in the arm. But it should make enough people immune so that the virus runs out of places to go. ![]() Just as with the annual flu shot, some of us will still get sick. Once approved, it will not be a silver bullet. For those of you longing to reclaim a semblance of your previous life, it may not seem all that speedy, but it is compared to the five to ten years it usually takes to field a new vaccine. He is in charge of Operation Warp Speed, the catchy title given to the crash program to inoculate 300 million Americans against the coronavirus by next spring. While the rest of the country has been counting votes, an Army general named Gus Perna has been counting doses of vaccine. ![]()
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