STAT+: Pfizer made Trump’s vaccine push harder than it needed to be, former Warp Speed official alleges in new book

“Of all the companies in which we invested, Pfizer was both the least transparent and least collaborative,” a former Operation Warp Speed official writes in a new book.

WASHINGTON — Pfizer may have been the first company to deliver on the promises of former President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, but it was an exceedingly rocky road for the drugmaking giant and the administration’s team, according to a sweeping new book from a former official.

“Of all the companies in which we invested, Pfizer was both the least transparent and least collaborative,” writes Paul Mango, the federal health department’s deputy chief of staff under Trump.

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