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success, making good on the administration’s promise in 
2020 to ‘‘. . . deliver by the end of this year a vaccine 
at scale to treat the American people’’; 
Whereas Operation Warp Speed’s rate of vaccine development 
was particularly astonishing, having completely shattered 
expectations about the development timeline by delivering 
two candidates described as ‘‘gold standard vaccines’’ in 
only 9 months, rather than years; 
Whereas the Trump administration supported the scientists 
at Moderna, Inc., Pfizer, Inc., and Johnson & Johnson 
through the Biomedical Advanced Research and Develop-
ment Authority; 
Whereas the Department of Defense, through the Defense 
Advanced Research Projects Agency in conjunction with 
the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Bio-
logical, Radiological and Nuclear Defense, partnered with 
the Department of Health and Human Services to opti-
mally deliver and administer a COVID–19 vaccine; 
Whereas Tinglong Dai, an associate professor of Operations 
Management and Business Analytics at Johns Hopkins 
University, said, ‘‘Without Operation Warp Speed, there 
would be no Moderna vaccine’’; 
Whereas the Director of the National Institutes of Health, 
Dr. Francis Collins, praised the Trump administration 
for the unprecedented success of Operation Warp Speed 
and the multiple effective vaccines developed within 1 
year of the virus outbreak; 
Whereas, on December 11, 2020, the Food and Drug Admin-
istration speedily issued the first emergency use author-
ization to allow Pfizer to begin distributing its vaccine to 
the public; 
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Whereas, by October 16, 2020, the Trump administration 
and Operation Warp Speed were partnering with CVS 
Health and Walgreens to provide vaccine distribution to 
nursing homes and long-term care facilities nationwide, 
with no out-of-pocket costs, protecting America’s most 
vulnerable populations; 
Whereas, on December 8, 2020, President Trump signed an 
Executive order ensuring the most vulnerable populations 
and Americans have priority access to the vaccine; 
Whereas, on December 14, 2020, only 7 months after the 
launch of Operation Warp Speed, Sandra Lindsey, an in-
tensive care unit nurse in New York City, was the first 
person officially vaccinated; 
Whereas by the time he left office, President Trump managed 
to produce and deliver nearly 50 million doses of 
COVID–19 vaccine, with millions more on the way; 
Whereas according to the Centers for Disease Control, by the 
time President Trump left office, more than 21 million 
doses of COVID–19 vaccine had been administered in the 
United States; 
Whereas according to the Centers for Disease Control, on 
January 20, 2021, President Trump’s last day in office, 
1,511,443 doses of COVID–19 vaccine were adminis-
tered, setting the United States on pace to meet the 
Biden administration’s goal of 150,000,000 vaccines in 
his first 100 days; 
Whereas President Trump and Operation Warp Speed placed 
special emphasis on national security during a global 
health crisis, ensuring our vaccines were developed in the 
United States and met the strict standards of safety of 
United States vaccine development and deployment; and 
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Whereas the speedy development and deployment of COVID– 
19 vaccines has permitted our Nation to combat the 
spread of the virus, protect our most vulnerable popu-
lations, and begin the process of reopening our schools, 
offices, and public spaces: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes the massive and unprecedented 
accomplishments of the Trump administration and 
Operation Warp Speed in handling the development 
of a COVID–19 vaccine; and 
(2) expresses their sincere gratitude to Presi-
dent Trump and his Cabinet for their vital contribu-
tions to global public health and the management of 
the COVID–19 pandemic. 
Æ 
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