The Hill reports, “The rise of the BA.5 variant is spurring new calls for funding for an Operation Warp Speed 2.0 to accelerate the development of next-generation COVID-19 vaccines that can better target new variants.” According to the article, “Pfizer and Moderna are working on updated vaccines that target BA.5 that could be ready this fall.” However, “experts say that by the time they are ready, a new variant very well could have taken hold.” Meanwhile, George Washington University Public Health Professor Leana Wen “wrote in a Washington Post op-ed this week that the U.S. needs ‘urgent investment’ in next-generation vaccines and ‘we need an “Operation Warp Speed Part 2.”’”

From the news release of the American Association for Justice.