Gregory Zuckerman on the Crazy Race to Create the COVID Vaccine

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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In the race for a COVID vaccine, how did a couple of companies who had never produced a successful vaccine make it to the finish line so quickly? Gregory Zuckerman talks about his book, A Shot to Save the World, with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the daring, deranged, and damaged visionaries behind one of science and medicine's great success stories.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.7	Today is December 27, 2021, and my guest is Gregory Cercerman of the Wall Street Journal.
0:43.9	He was here on the program in June of 2014 to talk about his book, The Frackers.
0:48.5	His latest book is A Shot to Save the World, the inside story of the life or death race
0:54.4	for a COVID-19 vaccine, which is our topic for today.
0:58.0	Greg, welcome back to econtalk.
0:59.4	Hey, Russ, great to be back.
1:02.1	So this is an inside story.
1:05.6	There's a cast of characters at the different companies and government officials.
1:10.6	It's an amazing network of folks, some of whom are end up communicating with each other
1:15.7	at various times in the scientific process.
1:18.1	It takes place actually over decades to get us where we are today, which is a wonderful
1:22.2	moment relative to the alternative.
1:25.4	I'm curious about the inside story.
1:27.6	How did you get the details that you reveal in the book about conversations and the moods?
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