Donald Trump has tasked a team of experts with delivering a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year. Under "Operation Warp Speed", the US government will invest in leading vaccine candidates and get ready to distribute them on a mass scale, the President announced yesterday.
A crack team drawing from the government, military and pharmaceutical industry will work with other countries to find a jab that can prevent Covid-19, widely seen as the only long-term way to bring the global pandemic under control.
At an event in the White House Rose Garden, President Trump revealed that former GlaxoSmithKline executive Dr Moncef Slaoui and army general Gustave Perna will head up the operation.