FDA Authorizes First COVID Vaccine — Operation Warp Speed

The FDA grants Emergency Use Authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, followed a week later by Moderna's. Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration's public-private partnership to accelerate vaccine development, is credited with helping compress the typical multi-year vaccine timeline to under 12 months. Over 4 million doses are administered in the first month. The Moderna and J&J vaccines follow.