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Read through the articles. They don't do much to help your case. Additionally, it seems like a lot of money was diverted from the CDC and states who actually coordinated vaccine roll-out, which goes against your "infrastructure and logistics" argument. Do we know when or how much was provided to the CDC and states for roll-out? Wasn't it done through the stimulus bills?
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HHS pulled another $700 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and directed it to Operation Warp Speed, Bloomberg News reported on Sept. 16. HHS also drew $300 million in CDC funds for a planned advertising campaign, Robert Redfield, the CDC director, told Congress last week.
A person familiar with the situation said that much of the CDC funds would likely have gone to state and local health authorities responding to Covid-19. Redfield told Congress at the hearing that the agency needs an additional $6 billion in funds to help states distribute any coronavirus vaccine that becomes available.
The full context for the quote you pulled is the following
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Warp Speed was designed to quickly fund pharmaceutical companies’ efforts to develop vaccines and drugs, financing manufacturing and guaranteeing purchase of vaccines ahead of clinical trials that will show if they work. The program will likely shave years off the time needed to find a vaccine and if successful may save tens of thousands or hundreds of thousand of lives in the U.S., and potentially more around the world.
and since Pfizer was the first done without any public funds, it really cuts into the argument that the vaccine was developed faster as a result. I disagree with their characterization, but I'm also speaking after the vaccines have been created and distributed. They didn't know that writing in September 2020.