Overview
The full inside story of the high-stakes, global race for the lifesaving vaccine to end the pandemic
Heroic science. Chaotic politics. Billionaire entrepreneurs.Ā Award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings the defining story of our times alive through compulsively readable, first-time reporting on the players leading theĀ fight against a vicious virus.Ā The First Shots, soon to beĀ the subject of an HBO limited series with superstar director and producer Adam McKay (Succession, Vice, The Big Short), draws on exclusive, high-level access to weave together the intenseĀ vaccine-race conflicts among hard-driving, heroic scientists and the epic rivalries among Washington power players that shaped 18 months of fear, resolve, and triumph.
From infectious disease expert Michael Callahan, an American doctor secretly on the ground in Wuhan in January 2020 to gauge the terrifying ravages of Disease X;Ā to Robert (Dr. Bob) Kadlec, one of Operation Warp Speedās architects, whose audacious plans for the American people run straight into the buzz saw of the Trump White House factions;Ā to StĆ©phane Bancel of upstart Moderna Therapeutics going toe-to-toe with pharma behemoth Pfizer,Ā The First ShotsĀ lays bare, in a way we have not seen, the full stunning story behind the medical scienceĀ āmoon shotā of our lifetimes.
This book title, The First Shots (The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine) - 9780063269095, ISBN: 9780063269095, by Brendan Borrell, published by HarperCollins (October 25, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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