The full inside story of the high-stakes, global race for the lifesaving vaccine to end the pandemic
Heroic science. Chaotic politics. Billionaire entrepreneurs.Award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings the defining story of our times alive through compulsively readable, first-time reporting on the players leading thefight against a vicious virus.The First Shots, soon to bethe subject of an HBO limited series with superstar director and producer Adam McKay (Succession, Vice, The Big Short), draws on exclusive, high-level access to weave together the intensevaccine-race conflicts among hard-driving, heroic scientists and the epic rivalries among Washington power players that shaped 18 months of fear, resolve, and triumph.
From infectious disease expert Michael Callahan, an American doctor secretly on the ground in Wuhan in January 2020 to gauge the terrifying ravages of Disease X;to Robert (Dr. Bob) Kadlec, one of Operation Warp Speed’s architects, whose audacious plans for the American people run straight into the buzz saw of the Trump White House factions;to Stéphane Bancel of upstart Moderna Therapeutics going toe-to-toe with pharma behemoth Pfizer,The First Shotslays bare, in a way we have not seen, the full stunning story behind the medical science“moon shot” of our lifetimes.
0 有用 冬天 2022-05-07 03:58:44
有几点让我印象深刻的地方：病毒学家、疫苗研发人员、疫苗公司、包括总统在内的政客、媒体，每个群体都是一个平行世界。除了病毒学家，几乎每个人做的每件事都是为了自身的利益。 而病毒学家基本就是一群技术宅，看着这一切 side track 也束手无策。完全就是 Don’t Look Up 里描述的样子。 2019年底2020年初在中国有零星曝出新冠病例时，美国的病毒学家就已经开始在研究病毒基因序列并且在... 有几点让我印象深刻的地方：病毒学家、疫苗研发人员、疫苗公司、包括总统在内的政客、媒体，每个群体都是一个平行世界。除了病毒学家，几乎每个人做的每件事都是为了自身的利益。 而病毒学家基本就是一群技术宅，看着这一切 side track 也束手无策。完全就是 Don’t Look Up 里描述的样子。 2019年底2020年初在中国有零星曝出新冠病例时，美国的病毒学家就已经开始在研究病毒基因序列并且在2020年一月就已经解锁。但从那时候开始到找到愿意研发一秒的制药厂，再到真正研发、投入临床试验，过了很久很久。其中还有各种商业利益和政治博弈。牵涉进去的各个政客，最后发现华盛顿一堆政客里最能做事的竟然是 Jared Kushner. 😰 (展开)
0 有用 isabel_han 2024-10-04 15:11:31 北京
比起辉瑞CEO的那本Moonshot果然更有文学性，这次不像看公司邮件大汇编了，也终于明白了其他那几家的疫苗试验都是怎么冒出来的（其实辉瑞是单玩儿的，大富之家就是不一样），原来也是集中力量办大事儿，大力出奇迹的思路。