Wed Jan 13, 2021, 09:57 AM

DonViejo (57,866 posts)

Operation Warp Speed chief adviser submits resignation at request of Biden transition

Source: The Hill

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 01/13/21 09:19 AM EST

Moncef Slaoui, the chief adviser to Operation Warp Speed, on Wednesday, submitted his resignation as part of a plan to hand the vaccination effort over to President-elect Biden's coronavirus team.

Slaoui's resignation, which will go into effect next month according to CNBC, comes as the president-elect has yet to name a new chief scientific adviser for the federal government's vaccine deployment program, which has so far seen just over 9 million Americans receive the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Representatives for Biden's transition team did not immediately return a request for comment from The Hill.

The president-elect has named business executive and former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) appointee Jeffrey Zients to oversee his COVID-19 response, while Kaiser Permanente's chief health officer Bechara Chouchair is Biden's vaccine coordinator.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/533984-operation-warp-speed-chief-adviser-submits-resignation-at-request-of

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7 replies	Author	Time	Post
Operation Warp Speed chief adviser submits resignation at request of Biden transition (Original post)	DonViejo	Jan 13	OP
Slaoui is a shady crook.	dalton99a	Jan 13	#1
+1000	soothsayer	Jan 13	#2
I disagree with that assessment. Biden needs his own team, but Slaoui is not a crook	still_one	Jan 13	#3
Everything Trump touches Dies...	mackdaddy	Jan 13	#4
exactly	still_one	Jan 13	#5
"Everything trump touches dies"...I think this is a republican thing.	Escurumbele	Jan 13	#6
'Operation Warp Speed' sounds SO juvenile. Give it a dignified name, ffs!	Talitha	Jan 13	#7

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 10:00 AM

dalton99a (58,275 posts)

1. Slaoui is a shady crook.

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 10:01 AM

soothsayer (31,896 posts)

2. +1000

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Response to dalton99a (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 13, 2021, 10:14 AM

still_one (76,323 posts)

3. I disagree with that assessment. Biden needs his own team, but Slaoui is not a crook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moncef_Slaoui

There is no question though that Operation Warp speed was a disaster in the distribution of the vaccines into people's arms, and the planning to do that was not well done

Not too much of a surprise since everything that involves trump is a disaster

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 10:24 AM

mackdaddy (1,062 posts)

4. Everything Trump touches Dies...

"what is the worst that could happen?"

Turns out I did not want to know the answer, But yet here we are.

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 10:30 AM

still_one (76,323 posts)

5. exactly

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Response to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jan 13, 2021, 10:39 AM

Escurumbele (542 posts)

6. "Everything trump touches dies"...I think this is a republican thing.

When GW Bush was president that is how I thought of him, I told people that Bush had the "unMidas touch" because everything he touches dies, and of course it is true from trump, but somehow it seems to be a republican thing.

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 12:17 PM

Talitha (4,018 posts)

7. 'Operation Warp Speed' sounds SO juvenile. Give it a dignified name, ffs!

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