Trump Introduces ‘Warp Speed’ Leaders to Hasten Covid-19 Vaccine

President Donald Trump on Friday officially introduced a former pharmaceutical executive and a four star-general who will lead his crash coronavirus vaccine effort, amid a whistle-blower’s criticism that the administration lacked a plan to combat the outbreak.

Trump named General Gustave Perna, who directs the U.S. Army Materiel Command, as chief operating officer of “Operation Warp Speed,” likening it to the Manhattan Project effort to develop the atomic bomb.

“That means big and that means fast,” Trump said in remarks from the White House Rose Garden.

Former GlaxoSmithKline Plcexecutive Moncef Slaoui will be the project’s “chief scientist,” Trump ...