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Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy by blibble on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:39PM (#30142952)
yes, the entire article is singing the praise of the necessity of darpa and OWS

when biontech and pfizer succeeded without any of it

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Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy by anonymousiam on Sunday January 30, 2022 @08:54PM (#30143559)
There's a separate element of Warp Speed that nobody is discussing. It's not about funding the development, but about allowing use on humans with reduced trials beforehand. That part was enormously successful.
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Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy by NicoJuicy on Sunday January 30, 2022 @09:14PM (#30143713)
That's not operation Warp speed. That's pandemic 101 from the WHO.

And it's not reduced trials, it's doing them simultaneously.

I mentioned it before in another comment 3 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30141967

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Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy by rsynnott on Sunday January 30, 2022 @08:23PM (#30143325)
BioNTech did receive significant funding from the German government, however.
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Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy by NicoJuicy on Sunday January 30, 2022 @09:16PM (#30143723)
That's not related to Warp speed.

Those are subsidies for eg. doing simultaneous clinical trials and to compensate it's additional costs.

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