Operation Warp Speed Could Shape Up to Be an $18 Billion Bargain

On a late August day in an industrial corner of Baltimore that had been mostly silenced by the pandemic, a red-brick manufacturing plant was buzzing with activity. Deep in the building, in a zone called Area 3, the stainless steel shell of a bioreactor lay on its side, having just arrived from Massachusetts. Employees had begun the task of making the bioreactor operational. Within weeks it would be the center of a production line for coronavirus vaccines.

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When the owner of the plant, Emergent BioSolutions Inc., ordered the bioreactor, ...