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Public funds always go into manufacturing something when you buy it. Isn't it normal for big orders are paid before before they're ever produced, especially when it's a new product? Doesn't seem like something that would go beyond what is normally entailed in buying a large order of something.
Furthermore, there was an investment in basically having things be ready way ahead of when the vaccine would be rolling out. Corning, for example, is a company I'm very familiar with as I've interviewed with and have done research on their business units. Millions of glass vials were being prepared as early as June, and this is just one specific example of many other peripheral things that would make vaccine rollout faster and smoother that was part of warp speed.
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Operation Warp Speed ramps up U.S.-based manufacturing capacity for vials for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments
To expand domestic manufacturing capacity for vials, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, collaborated with the DOD Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense and Army Contracting Command, to provide funding to two U.S. companies: Corning Incorporated, headquartered in Corning, New York, and SiO2 Materials Science located in Auburn, Alabama.
BARDA is partnering with and providing $204 million to Corning to expand the domestic manufacturing capacity to produce an additional 164 million Valor Glass vials each year if needed. Corning will accelerate the scale up of Valor Glass tubing and vial manufacturing at the company’s facilities in Durham, North Carolina; Big Flats, New York; and Vineland, New Jersey.
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/06/11/operation-warp-speed-ramps-up-us-based-manufacturing-capacity-for-vials-for-covid-19-vaccines-and-treatments.html