Why aren't we celebrating Operation Warp Speed?

The federal government’s unprecedented investment in vaccine candidates trumped conventional wisdom and the skeptics, producing what is probably the biggest scientific achievement of the 21st century. Remarkably, the COVID-19 vaccines may be pioneering novel technology that could be used to power other vaccines that could finally protect us against some of the most stubborn viruses, like HIV. We should be looking at OWS like we do the Apollo Program or the global campaign that wiped out smallpox. Yet we’ve seen very few victory laps, let alone reflection on one of the most successful government interventions in living memory. If you do a search of the White House website, you’ll find just three mentions of “Operation Warp Speed,” all of them from press conferences where reporters, not White House staff, brought up the initiative.