You have to admit it, Operation Warp Speed is a good moniker. It’s the name for the American interagency program, initiated by the Trump administration, to produce 300 million doses of a safe vaccine for COVID-19 by January. Who couldn’t get behind this all-hands national effort to defeat the virus and end the pandemic, excitingly named after the faster-than-light space travel in Star Trek? While Britain wait for clinical trials led by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, America warps ahead.
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