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Indlæser... A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine (original 2021; udgave 2021)af Gregory Zuckerman (Forfatter)
Work InformationA Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine af Gregory Zuckerman (2021)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. A Shot to Save the World is a group biography of the people and companies who developed or helped lay the groundwork for the COVID vaccines, specifically the mRNA type used by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. Most of the work was done by small companies, large pharma did not see the profit potential. or even viability of mRNA vaccines. The audacious and risky goal was a cure for AIDS or the flu. So when COVID hit (two-thirds into the book), they were best positioned to make a vaccine that could be rapidly replicated at high volume - unlike traditional vaccines - and overnight they went from small companies into billion dollar corporations. No one really knew if it would work, but the epidemiological results were stunning. It's a fairy tale, still playing out, how these small companies went from nothing to literally saving the world. This is the second book by Zuckerman I have read, the first about fracking pioneers. That was a better book, I had a hard time following this one, there are a lot of people, the subject matter can be banal - many advancements were simply lab accidents - and the biotech hard to follow. Still it's interesting learn about the people, most of them were motivated to enter into this risky line of research not for supposed riches but to help save lives. ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China in January 2020. Politicians, government officials, business leaders, and public-health professionals were unprepared for the most devastating pandemic in a century. Many of the world's biggest drug and vaccine makers were slow to react or couldn't 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 despised by his peers. Far from the limelight, each had spent years developing innovative vaccine approaches. Their work was met with skepticism and scorn. By 2020, these individuals had little proof of progress. Yet they and their colleagues wanted to be the ones to stop the virus holding the world hostage. They scrambled to turn their life's work into life-saving 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. No library descriptions found. |
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