From the beginning of modern virology and vaccine development, the U.S. military played a leading role in fighting diseases ranging from yellow fever to hepatitis. In 1945, American GIs were the first people in the world to be vaccinated against the flu.25 In 2020 the largest state-led effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine was the American one. Inspired by the Manhattan Project of World War II, but boasting a title straight out of Star Trek, Operation Warp Speed was launched on May 15, 2020. It was a collaboration between biotech, big pharma, and two giant government bureaucracies—the
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