This is NOT a Nuclear Weapon

A writer in Science says we must form an integrated multinational program led by some select group with massive funding to have a Manhattan Project for COVID-19. Specifically he notes:

An initiative of this scale won't be easy. Extraordinary sharing of information and resources will be critical, including data on the virus, the various vaccine candidates, vaccine adjuvants, cell lines, and manufacturing advances. Allowing different efforts to follow their own leads during the early stages will take advantage of healthy competition that is vital to the scientific endeavor. We must then decide which vaccine candidates warrant further exploration purely on the basis of scientific merit. This will require drawing on work already supported by many government agencies, independent organizations like the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and pharmaceutical and biotech companies to ensure that no potentially important candidate vaccines are missed. Only then can we start to narrow in on those candidates to be advanced through all clinical trial phases. This shortlist also needs to be based on which candidates can be developed, approved, and manufactured most efficiently.

Unfortunately the author in my opinion is clueless. The Manhattan Project was a secretive single focused technical program to implement a weapon. The  COVID-19 effort is a highly distributed effort interconnected in an open manner examining a multiplicity of approaches and leveraging off the open market capabilities of many entities. Any singularly focused and led effort of an international scale will be a disaster. Just look at the WHO. Their gross incompetence, in my opinion, frankly led to this.