Vaccine Wars | Trials and Tribulations | 5

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It’s fall 2020 and the world’s waiting for the first results from the vaccine trials.

But as the moment of truth nears, the pressure on the vaccine makers intensifies.

And while AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson get hit with curveballs, Pfizer finds itself caught in the crossfire of the U.S. Presidential election.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to business wars, add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:18.0	September 8, 2020.
0:21.0	COVID-19 has killed nearly 900,000 people worldwide.
0:26.0	20% of them are Americans.
0:29.0	By death toll, the US is the hardest hit nation in the world.
0:34.0	In his office in Silver Spring, Maryland, FDA boss Dr. Stephen Han catches up on emails.
0:40.0	Han is a bald oncologist with a gray go team.
0:44.0	He took charge of the FDA in December 2019, just as the coronavirus began its global rampage.
0:53.0	Han looks up as a colleague enters his office.
0:56.0	Hey, you see the news about AstraZeneca's vaccine trials?
1:01.0	No, what's happened?
1:03.0	They suspended them on Sunday. Someone got sick.
1:06.0	Han's jaw drops.
1:09.0	It's now Tuesday, and he was talking to AstraZeneca just a few hours earlier.
1:14.0	What? They didn't say anything this morning.
1:17.0	Do we know, actually scratch that? I'll call them myself.
1:22.0	Han phones a top executive at AstraZeneca.
1:25.0	Why am I learning second hand that your vaccine trials are on ice?
1:30.0	We only told the British regulator a few hours ago.
1:35.0	Hours? So you had time to tell us.
1:38.0	But we are going to.
1:39.0	Going to isn't good enough.
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