News Deliver a safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine in less than a year? Impossible. Meet Moncef Slaoui. December 1, 2020 Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY Comments Off on Deliver a safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine in less than a year? Impossible. Meet Moncef Slaoui. As science adviser of Operation Warp Speed, the veteran pharmaceutical executive helped usher a coronavirus vaccine to the US market in record time.