Operation warp speed vaccine series#

After this will come group 2 or “general public availability” probably starting in March/April of this year. After them, the next groups (1B) will be essential workers (not just in the healthcare industry) and those over 75 years of age. He added that according to the plan, the first groups to receive the vaccines (1A) will be frontline healthcare workers and elderly residents of long-term care facilities. This is requiring planners to prioritize groups to distribute the vaccine to first as they allocate doses to state and other jurisdictions. What happened? During the discussion, Ostrowski said that unlike the annual flu vaccine (which can be produced in the hundreds of millions of doses) there are currently only “tens of millions, sometimes single digits of millions” of doses of coronavirus vaccine.

Operation warp speed vaccine series#

Chamber of Commerce Foundation event series designed to help business and community leaders find the answers they need to execute a responsible reopening strategy and plan for a post-pandemic world. Operation Warp Speed was created in May with the goal of working across the federal government and with the private sector to produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines. Chamber of Commerce President Suzanne Clark in conversation with General Paul Ostrowski, director of supply, production and distribution for Operation Warp Speed. Fill me in: This week’s Path Forward featured U.S.