A Shot to Save the World | Greg Zuckerman

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This is the definitive account of the global effort to develop a vaccine for Covid-19, charting the failure and success of every major vaccine in use.When the coronavirus pandemic hit, 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 American Midwesterner obsessed with insect cells, a Boston scientist employing…