Warp Speed is copyable by a private pool in some parts and not in others. Copyable, from Klein and Thompson's account: one goal; a portfolio spread over three vaccine platforms rather than one or dozens; push money for early costs plus pull money for authorised doses; execution left to firms. Not copyable: it recruited trial populations, sped FDA review and bought the whole supply so doses were free, all acts of a sovereign. A collective fund can be the portfolio and the buyer; where a regulator holds the clearance, it still needs the state.

Evidence 4 passages

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  Rather than put all their money behind one type of vaccine technology or one pharmaceutical company, they spread their investments across three vaccine platforms or technologies.

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  Instead, firms were lured with upfront subsidies and promises of future payouts.

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  To reduce barriers that could slow down vaccine approval, OWS helped to recruit populations for clinical trials and to accelerate the timeline for FDA review.

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  OWS solved problems by enabling the private sector rather than commanding it.

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