American Hospital Association April 23, 2021
The government’s announcement last week that more than half of all adults in the U.S. have received at least one COVID-19 shot is a remarkable feat that outperforms earlier predictions about the pace of vaccinations across the country.
And it should come as no surprise that our federal health system — which has done so much over the years to save lives, perform miracles and keep people healthy — played a prominent role in this still-evolving vaccine victory.
A case in point: Operation Warp Speed … the drive to rapidly move vaccines from laboratories through vigorous testing into the general population. For this public-private partnership, designed in part by an Air Force brigadier general, it was mission accomplished...