Vaccines: A New American Success Story? — with The Wall Street Journal’s Gregory Zuckerman

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🗓️ 30 October 2021

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Have we revolutionized vaccine development? What does this mean for our lives and our health well beyond the vaccine for Covid-19? Could this kind of life sciences revolution only happen in America? And what about Operation Warp Speed? Is it a model for future public-private partnerships to solve big problems? Greg Zuckerman of The Wall Street Journal joins the podcast to discuss his new and fascinating book, “A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine.” Greg’s previous books include: “The Man Who Solved The Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution”, and then there was “The Greatest Trade Ever”, “The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters”, and “Rising Above: How 11 Athletes Overcame Challenges in Their Youth to Become Stars”. Greg is s a Special Writer and investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal, a 20-year veteran of the paper and a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb award — the highest honor in business journalism.

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0:00.0	Listen, I hate to be sort of an apologist in any way for Wall Street and for Big Pharma, but Wall Street and Big Pharma save the day here.
0:07.5	They're not always looking out for us.
0:09.5	There are reasons for criticism, but we have to give them deep gratitude when it comes to
0:13.6	these vaccines that they spent years of frustrated work and that we need to be
0:18.4	grateful for.
0:21.2	Welcome to post Corona where we try to understand COVID-19's lasting impact on the
0:26.3	economy, culture and geopolitics few things to be grateful for. Among them
0:44.4	the children were barely harmed at least physically in a direct way by the
0:48.6	pandemic almost by some kind of divine intervention.
0:53.2	And then of course the technology enabled huge swaths,
0:56.5	although not all of our economy to continue to function despite the lockdowns.
1:01.0	And that we developed vaccines in record time. Really there's been nothing in
1:05.3	history like it. Rapid vaccine development. How did it happen? Now I know we were
1:12.1	planning to wrap this series with a conversation with Scott Godley,
1:14.9	but we'll wait until the next episode for that conversation because we wanted to have a timely conversation
1:20.4	today with Greg Zuckerman of the Wall Street Journal, who just sent me a copy of his
1:25.2	new book called A Shot to Save the World, the inside story of the life or death race for a COVID-19
1:32.3	vaccine.
1:33.8	I just got it, I've been devouring it,
1:36.2	I wanted to have him on this podcast.
1:38.4	He may have just cracked some of the questions
1:40.7	I've been raising in this series about the future of vaccine
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