A Shot to Save the World

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Gregory Zuckerman is a special writer at the Wall Street Journal. He writes about business subjects like financial trades hedge funds and privateequity firms and about innovation and cuttingedge science. Hes a threetime winner of the Gerald Loeb Award the highest honour in business journalism. Zuckerman is the author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers and he appears regularly on CNBC Fox Business and the BBC. He lives in New York.The race to develop a COVID vaccine is one of the most exciting dramas in medical history and A Shot to Save the World is a thrilling account based on great reporting and access to all of the teams. An inspiring and informative pageturner.An appropriately breathless account of the business and scientific rivalries between researchers and companies behind the successful coronavirus vaccines. Zuckerman shows how a global catastrophe transformed the fortunes of tiny visionary ventures and huge pharmaceutical enterprises as they raced to stem the pandemics spread.Zuckerman conveys decades of complex scientific research in a gripping fashion. His focus on the slow burn of discovery makes for a fascinating angle and offers plenty of inspiration. The result is tough to put down.Thrilling inspiring and informative pageturner. Walter Isaacson author of The Code BreakerYou know what went wrong.This is the untold story of what went right.Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan China in January 2020. Politicians government officials business leaders and publichealth professionals were unprepared for the most devastating pandemic in a century. Many of the worlds biggest drug and vaccine makers were slow to react or couldnt muster an effective response.It was up to a small group of unlikely and untested scientists and executives to save civilization. A French businessman dismissed by many as a fabulist. A Turkish immigrant with little virus experience. A quirky Midwesterner obsessed with insect cells. A Boston scientist employing questionable techniques. A British scientist resented by his peers. Far from the limelight each had spent years developing innovative vaccine approaches. Their work was met with scepticism and scorn. By 2020 these individuals had little proof of progress. Yet they and their colleagues wanted to be the ones to stop a virulent virus holding the world hostage. They scrambled to turn their lifes work into lifesaving vaccines in a matter of months each gunning to make the big breakthrough and to beat each other for the glory that a vaccine guaranteed.A numberone New York Times bestselling author and awardwinning Wall Street Journal investigative journalist Zuckerman takes us inside the topsecret laboratories corporate clashes and highstakes government negotiations that led to effective shots. Deeply reported and endlessly gripping this is a dazzling blowbyblow chronicle of the most consequential scientific breakthrough of our time

Data Publikacji: 2021-10-28
Wymiary: 234 mm 153 mm 27 mm 463 gr