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Warp Speed: Inside the Operation That Beat COVID, the Critics, and the Odds Hardcover – June 14, 2022
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- Print length234 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRepublic Book Publishers
- Publication dateJune 14, 2022
- Dimensions6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101645720543
- ISBN-13978-1645720546
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"When Paul Mango, a respected expert in healthcare, went to Washington, he never expected to face the largest public health crisis in a century. In his new book, Mango takes us inside the room for one of America’s greatest accomplishments: distributing millions of doses of safe and effective vaccines within one year of identifying the Covid virus. Paul gives us his insider’s view on who and what made that possible, as well as lessons to help us cope with the next pandemic." —Trevor Fetter, Former CEO, Tenet Healthcare, and current Lecturer, Harvard Business School
"Congratulations to Paul Mango on his new book, Warp Speed: Inside the Operation that Beat Covid, the Critics, and the Odds, which tells the story of how my Administration, in record time, delivered vaccines and therapeutics to the American people to fight the China Virus. What we achieved was incredible, but it is sad to see what Biden has done with it (no mandates!). Great job, Paul!" --Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
"The simply amazing story behind the development of anti-Covid vaccines is told in riveting detail and clearly laid out for the general public by someone who was there at every stage of this medical miracle that was accomplished in a time of dire peril for the nation (and the world!)." —Michael Dunford, Midwest Book Review
About the Author
Tom Cotton is a United States Senator from Arkansas. Tom sits on the Senate Committees on Armed Services, Intelligence, and Judiciary. Tom grew up on his family's cattle farm in Yell County. After a clerkship with the U.S. Court of Appeals and private law practice, Tom left the law because of the September 11th attacks. Tom served in Iraq with the 101st Airborne and in Afghanistan with a Provincial Reconstruction Team. Between his two combat tours, Tom served with The Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetery. Tom is the author of Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery.
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- Publisher : Republic Book Publishers
- Publication date : June 14, 2022
- Language : English
- Print length : 234 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1645720543
- ISBN-13 : 978-1645720546
- Item Weight : 1.06 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #292,687 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #84 in Government & Business
- #176 in History of Medicine (Books)
- #238 in Health Care Delivery (Books)
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2022I highly recommend this book to all. It was an fascinating inside look at Operation Warp Speed - the most important operation of our time. Paul Mango provides an insider’s account into the challenges, personalities, and triumphs of Operation War Speed (OWS). He provides details about OWS and the valuable teamwork and focuses that were needed for success. Paul has a great writing style which makes the book a pleasurable read. Finally, Paul provides some valuable lessons from Operation Warp Speed that we can apply to our our own lives. “Warp Speed” is a must-read.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2025The author has no idea what he is talking about. So poorly written! Save yourself the headache and skip this book.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2022Mango's detailed breakdown of the Warp Speed miracle shows Washington at its finest. The top leaders in government --- the President and Secretaries of HHS and Defense -- overcome the Public Health bureaucracy to deliver life-saving vaccines in record time. One comes away wondering why there's no Operation Warp Speed for Alzheimer's or cancer.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2025Sometimes governments and other organizations become over-specialized which prevents or at least slows down collaborations among departments that could improve or speed up public policy.
Operation Warp Speed was many things, but mostly of what it accomplished was the result of novel organization, a special task force made up of members of a variety of departments within HHS and the Department of Defense. This by itself was something of a marvel and worked much better (although not perfectly) than one might have expected. It speed up the development of the Covid vaccines in several was.
First, it shifted much of the risk of vaccine development from private firms to the government (taxpayers), Second, it helped organize and run clinical trials to reduce their direct costs of satisfying the safety and effectiveness criteria for emergency authorization. Third, it used laws that revised earlier ones used in WWII which allowed the government in times of emergency to overturn contracts and solve a variety of supply chain problems for the vaccine developers, mass producers of the vaccine, and the distribution networks for those vaccines after they were developed and mass production methods were worked out.
In terms of cost-benefit analysis, it was a winner, by speeding all phases of the process of bringing new vaccines to the public it arguably saved millions of lives and helped reduce the economic cost of lockdowns in 2021 by hundreds of billions more than it cost.
This is a book authored by an active participant of the inter-agency task force that did the work of speeding up all the above. As such, it shows the pride of participation. Also, it occasionally exaggerates or slightly mistakes some scientific and historical details. Of course, pure science accounts of the process of bringing the vaccines to market totally neglect all of the supply chain snafus that would otherwise have greatly impeded both the mass production and distribution of the new vaccines. The complete history requires a synthesis of both, which this book contributes to.
I mark it down a bit for its prose here and there, and also for the minor errors and exaggerations--but it is still worth a read. There are many details that even an avid reader of news accounts of the OWS operation neglected to report.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2022Knowing this author made it easier to trust his perspectives. I suspect there will be many who will believe the contents are just the biased perspective of a conservative Republican, to whom I will respond "I dissent"
- Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2025hardest read of my life this guy has zero clue what he’s talking about
- Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2025didn’t enjoy it at all
- Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2025Waste of time







