A Shot to Save the World av Gregory Zuckerman

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<p><b>''Thrilling, inspiring and informative page-turner.''</b> Walter Isaacson, author of <i>The Code Breaker</i><br><b><br>You know what went wrong.</b><br><b><br>This is the untold story of what went right.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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 innovat