I wish folk would move away from the world war two nostalgia, it's debilitating and wasn't at all hard and fast, even if a 90 minute movie cut leads you to believe that.
Japan took over most of the Pacific I'm the time it took for the FDA to schedule the meeting to approve the vaccine after EUA was submitted. In 1947 we vaccinated 5 million people from a "cold start" in 2 weeks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_New_York_City_smallpox_...
People keep bringing up examples of going fast because others are saying "we are going as fast as we can."
> Japan took over most of the Pacific I'm the time it took for the FDA to schedule the meeting to approve the vaccine
The operation was completed in that time but many of the plans were created years earlier and much of the preparation (like ships/planes/manpower) was done decades earlier.
People keep bringing up examples of going fast because others are saying "we are going as fast as we can."