Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy

Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy by manuelabeledo on Sunday January 30, 2022 @05:16PM (#30141748)

> Wait, getting multiple vaccines ready but none were from the US.

Wasn't the Moderna vaccine developed entirely in the US?

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Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy by SR2Z on Sunday January 30, 2022 @05:26PM (#30141867)

And while the Pfizer one was majority developed by BioNTech, they lacked the expertise to actually produce it at scale.

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Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy by NicoJuicy on Sunday January 30, 2022 @05:38PM (#30141967)

And that happened at the existing Pfizer facility in Puurs ( Belgium).

As far as I'm aware, no existing facilities were upgraded/expanded? https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-town-puurs-spotlight...

A big up for Belgian pharma facilities. But I'm unsure about the role of operation Warp speed on this all.

As far as I'm aware, Pfizer/BionTech explicitly avoided any funding through operation Warp Speed. They received an order in phase 3 of the clinical trials.

The core issue ( why they partnered with Pfizer) for BionTech was also not production at scale, but handling clinical trials at this scale. Which ( again/also) was not related to Warp Speed.

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Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy by yzmtf2008 on Sunday January 30, 2022 @05:44PM (#30142017)

> As far as I'm aware, no existing facilities were added?

Nowhere in your linked article indicates that "no existing facilities were added".

> As of January 2022, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is manufactured between 11 sites across five countries, including the U.S., Germany, Belgium, Ireland, and Croatia, and engages more than 20 suppliers.

https://www.pfizer.com/science/coronavirus/vaccine/manufactu...

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Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy by NicoJuicy on Sunday January 30, 2022 @05:50PM (#30142070)

I'm from Belgium and i did follow up on Puurs and i hadn't encountered any news that they needed to upgrade facilities there.

That's what you should have copied my whole sentence: "as far as I'm aware, no existing facilities were added". Which in retrospect should be upgraded actually. Didn't notice that mistake.

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Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy by b3orn on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:00PM (#30142151)

Biontech bought production facilities in Germany.

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Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy by NicoJuicy on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:04PM (#30142184)

Yeah, seems to be correct.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/131709/biontech-buys-a-novarti...

But i did mention the facility in Puurs ( since it's from my country), i wasn't keeping track on all of them ofc

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Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy by freeflight on Sunday January 30, 2022 @08:07PM (#30143188)

> they lacked the expertise to actually produce it at scale

Scaling up production is not all about expertise, but mostly about existing production capacities and how quickly they can be retooled for another production.

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