Title: A resolution expressing appreciation and recognition for the Trump Administration for the creation of Operation Warp Speed and the historic development of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This resolution recognizes the efforts of the Trump Administration and Operation Warp Speed in the development of the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) vaccine.
Operation Warp Speed is an interagency partnership that coordinates federal efforts to accelerate the development, acquisition, and distribution of medical countermeasures for COVID-19.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 188 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 188

 Expressing appreciation and recognition for the Trump Administration 
 for the creation of Operation Warp Speed and the historic development 
                         of a COVID-19 vaccine.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 28, 2021

   Mr. Marshall (for himself, Mr. Daines, Mr. Braun, Mr. Cotton, Mr. 
 Moran, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Hagerty, and 
Mr. Lankford) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
        the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing appreciation and recognition for the Trump Administration 
 for the creation of Operation Warp Speed and the historic development 
                         of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Whereas COVID-19 has infected more than 28,000,000 people in the United States 
        and taken the lives of more than 500,000;
Whereas, on May 15, 2020, President Trump unveiled Operation Warp Speed, the 
        nationwide effort to accelerate development of an effective COVID-19 
        vaccine;
Whereas Operation Warp Speed successfully ``deliver[ed] by the end of [2020] a 
        vaccine at scale to treat the American people'';
Whereas Operation Warp Speed, to date, has supported the authorization of 3 
        COVID-19 vaccines in 9 months, rather than years;
Whereas the Department of Defense and the Department of Health and Human 
        Services partnered together to support the development, manufacturing, 
        delivery, and administration of such COVID-19 vaccines;
Whereas the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, 
        praised the Trump Administration for the unprecedented success of 
        Operation Warp Speed including that multiple safe and effective COVID-19 
        vaccines ``got done in 11 months from when we first knew about this 
        virus [which] is at least 5 years faster than it's ever been before'';
Whereas, on October 16, 2020, the Trump Administration and Operation Warp Speed 
        announced a public-private partnership to leverage the expertise of 
        certain private sector entities to distribute and administer COVID-19 
        vaccines to nursing homes and long-term care facilities as quickly as 
        possible, protecting the most at-risk populations in the United States;
Whereas, on December 8, 2020, President Trump signed an Executive Order 
        prioritizing access for the people of the United States to the COVID-19 
        vaccines purchased by the United States Government;
Whereas, on December 11, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration authorized the 
        first vaccine for emergency use to prevent COVID-19;
Whereas, on December 14, 2020, an intensive care unit nurse in New York City 
        became the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in the United 
        States;
Whereas Operation Warp Speed helped to support development, manufacturing, and 
        distribution of vaccines, including procuring an initial 400,000,000 
        doses of COVID-19 vaccines, contract options that the Biden 
        Administration is reportedly levergaing to purchase additional doses;
Whereas according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, by the time 
        President Trump left office, more than 21,000,000 doses of a COVID-19 
        vaccine had been administered in the United States;
Whereas according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on January 
        20, 2021, the last day in office for President Trump, 1,511,443 doses of 
        a COVID-19 vaccine were administered, setting the United States on pace 
        to meet the initial goal of the Biden Administration to administer 
        100,000,000 vaccines within the first 100 days of the Biden presidency; 
        and
Whereas the rapid development and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines has helped the 
        United States combat the spread of COVID-19, protect at-risk populations 
        in the United States, and begin the process of reopening the schools, 
        offices, and public spaces of the United States: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) recognizes the accomplishments of the Trump 
        Administration and Operation Warp Speed in supporting the 
        development of COVID-19 vaccines; and
            (2) expresses sincere gratitude to President Trump and his 
        Cabinet for the vital contributions of Operation Warp Speed to 
        supporting public health.
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