Alex Azar’s Story of the Genesis of Operation Warp Speed

U Penn LDI ^ | October 12, 2022 | Hoag Levins

[Pelham]

...it becomes very quickly clear — I knew this from my time in the drug industry — if we just rely on the industry to set its own timelines, it’ll take forever. And why is that? The rap on the drug industry is that it is the riskiest business on Earth that attracts the most risk averse people on Earth. And so, when you’re running a drug company, you’re managing a portfolio and basically trying to manage it horizontally and vertically.”

“The way you do that and manage this risk when you’re placing multibillion dollar bets on individual molecules, is you de-risk. You do that by having multiple products, multiple therapeutic areas, and multiple mechanisms of action. Then, importantly, you de-risk by molecule. Study, learn a bit, wait, invest, study, learn a bit more, then invest. Through this stepwise de-risking or gating of decision making, you learn to de-risk.”

“That’s what slows down the process so much. In addition, manufacturing — especially when you’re dealing with proteins and biologics, as with a vaccine, is where you will manufacture the smallest quantity possible for your clinical trials. To move from, say, a 20-liter bioreactor, which you use for clinical trial materials, to a 2000-liter bioreactor for commercial scale manufacturing is not just a math problem. Proteins are very moody, and they don’t just do what you say. And just because a protein on an E. coli feeder cell line works in a 20-liter bioreactor, doesn’t mean it’s going to work in a 2000-liter one.”.....

[Pelham]

“My biggest achievement at HHS and in my life was Operation Warp Speed,” Azar said. “It was really the blending of the Eli Lilly experiences as well as the Bush Administration Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan experiences together to figure out how, instead of taking 8 to 12 years to get a vaccine, you could do it in seven months.”

“Chinese scientists posted a genetic sequence on January 10th (2020). By January 13th, our scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases had already developed a seed strain vaccine from that. And then they partnered that with Moderna, with whom we had already been working with on mRNA technology for about a decade. So, we had an existing contractual relationship there. We partnered with them and eight weeks later were in human trials. It was the fastest time in human history that a (pharmaceutical) product has moved from discovery to actual phase one human trials. So, it was ‘here’s the money, here’s the seed strain.'”

[tinamina]

Never mentions a certain president. But who will get blamed for this guys most important project?

[thegagline]

Exactly. He was a champion of Operation Warped Greed. Had he engaged in a bit of intellectual curiosity, he would have concluded that: 1) there was never an effective vaccine against any coronavirus, and 2) that, up to that point, mRNA vaccines were never approved of for the prevention of any virus.

He perpetrated a fraud upon Americans. Never forgive, never forget.

[Travis McGee]

By the time primary season rolls around, the facts about the Covid Death Jab might be so well known that Operation Warp Speed will be political poison for Trump.

[Pelham]

There’s 3 different platforms. Six molecules making six vaccines that all fall under the umbrella of the covid vaccine. One platform has made measles vaccines for years. A second platform is one that has been used to make an ebola vaccine. Only the mRNA is a new method for generating a vaccine. So two of the vaccine platforms aren’t new at all. Are they supposed to be death jabs or is that term saved for mRNA alone?

[absalom01]

That level of detail is way too much nuance to be relevant now that the narrative has gelled.

A segment of the right/populist base has decided that any negative claim about any of the COVID vaccines is presumptively true. There are only two politically relevant questions left. 1) What portion of the base have decided that the “death jabs” are “literally Hitler” and 2) How do they rank this issue against other pressing concerns of, say, the economy, Biden’s proxy war against Russia, and encroaching CCP hegemony on the world stage.

OK, there’s one more factor: to what extent will Trump be let off of the hook for Operation Warp Speed, and will he be forced to disown it publicly to remain the leader of the populist movement that he galvanized in 2016?

[Pelham]

“A segment of the right/populist base has decided that any negative claim about any of the COVID vaccines is presumptively true.”

That sums it up accurately.

I was listening to Todd Herman filling in for Travis and Sexton and he was buying into the fear mongering. Presenting the idea that the mRNA vaccines cause myocarditis/pericarditis and are killing people.

A Canadian study ( https://tinyurl.com/4fwddacj ) published in November 2022 based on 10 million doses did indeed find a higher than expected incidence of myocarditis reported; 1.37 incidents per 100,000 doses, versus a rate of only 0.39 per 100,000 in unvaccinated individuals.

Does this validate the belief that mRNA vaccines are dangerous and likely killing people via myocarditis? What none of these people seem to know is that the smallpox vaccine reports myocarditis/pericarditis over 10% of the time. Instead of 1.37 per 100,000 that’s 1,000 cases of myocarditis per 100,000 doses. I don’t know if everyone still gets the smallpox “jab of death” but Boomers all did and if myocarditis was killing us off I didn’t hear about it.

https://tinyurl.com/mw5kz3sm