maybe not as the "warp speed" program is being prevented from interacting with the incoming administration who will be in charge of administering it, all for petty political reasons. this will likely cost tens of thousands more lives. pfizer did not participate in "warp speed" at all as they wisely determined that the federal government is completely corrupt for the time being.
Here's the CEO of Pfizer explciitly telling a journalist on the record they wanted to stay out of the "politics" of the program, which I think the non-naive reader can tell exactly what that means; they certainly would not announce that the very government they rely upon for drug approvals is "corrupt", they correctly identified that Trump has turned every US program into his own personal quid-pro-quo machine and they wanted no part of it:
> "When you get money from someone that always comes with strings. They want to see how we are going to progress, what type of moves you are going to do. They want reports," he finished. "And also, I wanted to keep Pfizer out of politics, by the way."
Reading your source, it seems the bureaucratic limitation was their #1; then comes politics.
"Pfizer declined the R&D funding in order to "liberate" scientists from bureaucratic limitations as they worked to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, the pharmaceutical company's CEO, Dr. Albert Bourla, said in a September interview with CBS News' Margaret Brennan."
What does this have to do with the news that this vaccine was developed so quickly? Regardless of if the program evaporates in January, the vaccine won’t.
It would mean all the work to prevent a vaccine would be undone by not disseminating the vaccine to the public. The end results are the metrics of success.
The vaccine isn't owned by the federal government. It's owned by these private companies. The Trump administration cannot prevent the vaccine from being disseminated to the public neither here in the US, or in the rest of the world.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/15/dr-fauci-trump-should-work-w...