THE HASTE WAS THE KNOWN RISK: 6/8 A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, by Gregory Zuckerman Kindle Edition
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🗓️ 6 October 2024
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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.
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| 0:14.8 | This is CBSi and the world. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm John Bachelor with Gregory Zuckerman. His new book is a shot to save the world. |
| 0:25.0 | The inside story of the life or death race for a COVID-19 vaccine. |
| 0:30.0 | We've watched the American companies, but Oxford is now teamed up with a European company, |
| 0:36.4 | AstraZeneca. Remember you need to R&D it, and Oxford is using the AD approach, the adenovirus approach that J&J is using. |
| 0:48.6 | That would make it possible for one shot and not a series of shots. |
| 0:52.0 | That would also make it possible to create a vaccine that is easily |
| 0:55.3 | transported. That's important for the world that is not well to do or has an infrastructure |
| 1:01.4 | for keeping vaccines cool as they're delivered, as we have here in North America |
| 1:06.2 | or in Northern Europe. |
| 1:08.6 | However, Oxford has AstraZeneca to manufacture the vaccine when they develop it. |
| 1:14.0 | The trouble is they have also the same trouble raising money. |
| 1:19.0 | Now, Hill and Gilbert are very confident, perhaps too confident. |
| 1:25.7 | At one point Gregory, you tell the story that they were ready to send a representative to |
| 1:29.3 | see the Prime Minister Boris Johnson. |
| 1:31.6 | Was there reluctance on the British government's part |
| 1:34.4 | to believe in Oxford? |
| 1:37.5 | Well, I think it was reluctance surely on |
| 1:39.7 | among experts, government bodies, including in the, to believe this thing would be serious. |
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