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Refrigerators store Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at a company facility in Kalamazoo, Mich.

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Pfizer's Coronavirus Vaccine Supply Contract Excludes Many Taxpayer Protections

7:37pm November 24, 2020

by Sydney Lupkin

The $1.95 billion Operation Warp Speed contract excludes government rights to inventions or production know-how developed in the manufacture of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Novavax released its federal contract to develop and supply a COVID-19 vaccine. The agreement reveals terms that weren't previously known.

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Novavax Posts Coronavirus Vaccine Contract That Government Didn't Disclose

4:00pm November 11, 2020

by Sydney Lupkin

The $1.6 billion Novavax contract is one of several Operation Warp Speed agreements issued through a third party, Advanced Technology International, and that hadn't been released.

The Department of Health and Human Services on Saturday made public several contracts with companies working on COVID-19 vaccines as part of Operation Warp Speed.

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HHS Released More Coronavirus Vaccine Contracts As Election Results Unfolded

2:16pm November 08, 2020

by Sydney Lupkin

Newly released COVID-19 vaccine contracts include weakened protections against potential price gouging. Several key federal contracts still haven't been disclosed by the government.

Moncef Slaoui, a former GlaxoSmithKline executive, speaks during the kickoff announcement for Operation Warp Speed in the White House Rose Garden on May 15.

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After Months Of Questions, A Key Operation Warp Speed Adviser's Contract Emerges

12:38am October 31, 2020

by Sydney Lupkin

Drug industry veteran Moncef Slaoui is a key figure in Operation Warp Speed's push to develop COVID-19 coronavirus vaccines. His employment terms raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest.

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Tony Potts, a 69-year-old retiree living in Ormond Beach, Fla., receives his first injection earlier this year as a participant in a Phase 3 clinical trial of Moderna's COVID-19 candidate vaccine.

Advisers To CDC Debate How COVID-19 Vaccine Should Be Rolled Out

9:41pm October 30, 2020

In advance of a COVID-19 vaccine being available, a group of independent medical advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weighed Friday who should get the vaccine first and how.

A heavily redacted supply contract between the federal government and vaccine developer Moderna, headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., was released Friday.

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A Federal Coronavirus Vaccine Contract Released At Last, But Redactions Obscure Terms

6:16pm October 24, 2020

by Sydney Lupkin

Most of the federal contracts with companies involved in the crash program to make COVID-19 vaccines haven't been made public. The lack of disclosure raises questions about accountability.

The phase 3 trial of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine candidate has been paused as the company investigates what it says is a study participant's "unexplained illness."

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Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly Pause COVID-19 Drug Trials

6:38pm October 13, 2020

by Laurel Wamsley

The move by Eli Lilly came less than 24 hours after Johnson & Johnson paused further dosing in all of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials while it investigated a volunteer's illness.

A volunteer received an injection as part of a clinical trial for a COVID-19 vaccine at Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Fla. Studies of vaccines backed by Operation Warp Speed have enrolled tens of thousands of people in a matter of months.

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Call For Administration's COVID-19 Vaccine Contracts To Be Disclosed

11:39am October 10, 2020

by Sydney Lupkin

Members of Congress and advocacy groups say Operation Warp Speed should release its contracts with vaccine makers after NPR reporting found the terms of many aren't public.

Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, speaks during a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, May 14, 2020 about his concerns that Health and Human Services lea

Government Scientist Tops Up Whistle-Blower Complaint and Quits NIH

11:03pm October 06, 2020

by Will Stone

Government scientist Rick Bright resigns from NIH claiming political goals are getting in the way of science. Bright was ousted from a different department at HHS earlier this year.

President Trump announced the creation of Operation Warp Speed in May to fast-track a coronavirus vaccine. He called it "a massive scientific and industrial, logistic endeavor unlike anything our country has seen since the Manhattan Project."

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How Operation Warp Speed's Big Vaccine Contracts Could Stay Secret

7:51pm September 29, 2020

by Sydney Lupkin

More than $6 billion in federal funding has been routed through a firm that manages defense contracts, making the agreements subject to less federal scrutiny and transparency.

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