Trump's 'Warp Speed' vaccine summit zooms into alternative reality | David Smith's sketch
by David Smith in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#5BDE9)
Sketch: The president's attempt at a victory lap offered a stark contrast to Joe Biden's sombre yet ambitious event
The US government's drive for a coronavirus vaccine was named Operation Warp Speed" by Peter Marks, an official at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and longtime Star Trek fan.
A staple of Star Trek storylines is alternative realities: someone slipping through a wormhole into a parallel universe where history took a radically different turn. Cable news viewers went through the wormhole at 2pm on Tuesday: two captains, two crews, two languages (one English, the other Klingon).
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