When the coronavirus pandemic began, a safe and effective vaccine seemed years away.

The average vaccine takes a decade to research, develop, and test, and only 6% reach the

market.

For the coronavirus, the best-case scenario was that a vaccine might arrive in late 2021.

Instead, it took just under a year.

The latest season of the Business Wars podcast follows the unprecedented race to save lives.

Contenders must make scientific breakthroughs supersize their manufacturing and wrestle

with near-impossible distribution logistics, all in a toxic US political climate.

And just as the deadly virus takes more lives and pushes society to the brink, it mutates,

more than 100 companies under the race, but only 4 become front runners.

We know that the end of this pandemic is going to happen because enough people get vaccinated.

This is an inside look into how that happened, into the way that government funded the research

and development, and created a competition between companies to make sure that we could bring

these important vaccines to the public.

Listen to Vaccine Wars from Business Wars on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or Listen

Early in Add Free by joining Wondry Plus in the Wondry app.

Cases of COVID-19 continue to climb in India, as the viruses led to the collapse of India's

healthcare system.

The season Florida will release 144,000 genetically modified 80s-adjiptime mosquitoes that produced

non-viable offspring in the wild to kill off the strain of mosquito that carries Zika,

Denge, and Yellow Fever.

And science itself is being brought to a standstill by a shortage of the tiny pipette tips that

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