Preventing More Baby Formula Shortages (with General Gustave Perna)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
Lemonada Media
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
As the man responsible for manufacturing and distributing the COVID-19 vaccine in less than a year, US Army four-star General Gustave Perna has a thing or two to say about today’s supply chain issues. He says product shortages, from vaccines to baby formula, are preventable if you center mission over profit and run hypotheticals that prepare your team for worst case scenarios. Andy relives Operation Warp Speed with the general as they discuss what we can learn from it.
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| 1:01.0 | Welcome to the bubble. This is your host, Andy Slavitt. It is Monday, June 6th. |
| 1:27.0 | There have been not quite 250 four star generals in the history of the United States. |
| 1:35.0 | Many of them you've heard of. George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower. |
| 1:43.0 | And there's a few that are alive today and one of them is on our show today and that's General Gustav Pernah. |
| 1:49.0 | Many of you got to know General Pernah in the context of his leadership of Operation Warp Speed, |
| 1:57.0 | which by the way during this interview, he refers to on one occasion as OWS. |
| 2:01.0 | So now you know what he means by OWS, it was Operation Warp Speed, which was the Trump initiative to get vaccines out to the country. |
| 2:09.0 | There was a lot that was successful about Operation Warp Speed. |
| 2:13.0 | We did get vaccines created. We did bet on multiple horses. There is a lot to be grateful for and how that was done. |
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