The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine - Rilegato

Borrell, Brendan

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ISBN 10: 0358569842 ISBN 13: 9780358569848

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2021

Riassunto

The full inside story of the high-stakes, global race for the lifesaving vaccine to end the pandemic

Heroic science. Chaotic politics. Billionaire entrepreneurs. Award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings the defining story of our times alive through compulsively readable, first-time reporting on the players leading the fight against a vicious virus. The First Shots, soon to be 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 intense 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; to Robert (Dr. Bob) Kadlec, one of Operation Warp Speed’s architects, whose audacious plans for the American people run straight into the buzz saw of the Trump White House factions; to Stéphane Bancel of upstart Moderna Therapeutics going toe-to-toe with pharma behemoth Pfizer, The First Shots lays bare, in a way we have not seen, the full stunning story behind the medical science “moon shot” of our lifetimes.

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Informazioni sull'autore

BRENDAN BORRELL is an Outside magazine correspondent and has written on science, health, and business for The Alantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, National Geographic, Wired, and the New York Times. Borrell lives in Los Angeles, and The First Shots is his first book.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0358569842
• ISBN 13: 9780358569848
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320
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