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Operation Warp Speed tried to race the virus — and the pandemic was still winning

Trump rolled out a big vaccine push on May 15, but the spectacle couldn’t hide how far the administration still was from solving testing, tracing, and basic public-health coordination.

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Operation Warp Speed tried to race the virus — and the pandemic was still winning

Trump rolled out a big vaccine push on May 15, but the spectacle couldn’t hide how far the administration still was from solving testing, tracing, and basic public-health coordination.

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Operation Warp Speed tried to race the virus — and the pandemic was still winning

Trump rolled out a big vaccine push on May 15, but the spectacle couldn’t hide how far the administration still was from solving testing, tracing, and basic public-health coordination.

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