President Trump’s secretary for health and human services, Alex Azar, will be in Aurora on Wednesday to visit a medical supplier and talk up the administration’s response to COVID-19, Colorado Politics has learned first.

The Cabinet member will tour Marathon Medical Corp., which is supplying over $27 million worth of syringes and needles for the president’s new Operation Warp Speed effort to take on the COVID-19 pandemic. HHS placed with Marathon on July 8, an agency spokesman said.

“The Trump administration has been equipping states like Colorado with the tools needed to beat the virus, from testing supplies and data expertise to PPE shipments, therapeutics and an eventual vaccine,” Azar said in a statement to Colorado Politics. “I look forward to meeting with, hearing from, and thanking Coloradans working to combat the coronavirus, including the team at Marathon Medical who are building capacity to distribute an eventual vaccine to the American people and the steps we’re taking together to defeat the virus.”

The Operation Warp Speed aims to deliver 300 million vaccine doses by January, along with supplying therapeutics and diagnostics.

Trump has weathered criticism and taken major hits in public polls over the administration’s slow response to the pandemic that has continued to escalate six months in, which has coincided with the president’s renewed interest in leading the response the last two weeks.

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