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NEW Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for ... 9781546000907 by Heath, David
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- 9781546000907
- Book Title
- Longshot : the inside Story of the Race for a Covid-19 Vaccine
- Item Length
- 9.4in
- Publisher
- Center Street
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Science, Business & Economics, Political Science
- Topic
- Life Sciences / Microbiology, Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy, Industries / Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Research & Development
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 16.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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In Longshot , investigative journalist David Heath takes readers inside the small group of scientists whose groundbreaking work was once largely dismissed but whose feat will now eclipse the importance of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine in medical history. With never-before-reported details, Heath reveals how these scientists overcame countless obstacles to give the world an unprecedented head start when we needed a COVID-19 vaccine. The story really begins in the 1990s, with a series of discoveries that were timed perfectly to prepare us for the worst pandemic since 1918. Readers will meet Katalin Kariko, who made it possible to use messenger RNA in vaccines but struggled for years just to hang on to her job. There's also Derrick Rossi, who leveraged Kariko's work to found Moderna but was eventually expelled from his company. And then there's Barney Graham at the National Institutes of Health, who had a career-long obsession with solving the riddle of why two toddlers died in a vaccine trial in 1966, a tragedy that ultimately led to a critical breakthrough in vaccine science. With both foresight and luck, Graham and these other crucial scientists set the course for a coronavirus vaccine years before COVID-19 emerged in Wuhan, China. The author draws on hundreds of hours of interviews with key players to tell the definitive story about how the race to create the vaccine sparked a revolution in medical science.
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Publisher
Center Street
ISBN-10
1546000909
ISBN-13
9781546000907
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23050401201
Product Key Features
Book Title
Longshot : the inside Story of the Race for a Covid-19 Vaccine
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Microbiology, Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy, Industries / Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Research & Development
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Science, Business & Economics, Political Science
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
16.9 Oz
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Qr189.5.V5
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Longshot is more than just a superb recounting of the development of a vaccine for COVID-19. It's also a fascinating dive into the business of high stakes science, a group biography of some extremely competitive research scientists, and in some ways a medical thriller. David Heath is both a gifted writer and a tenacious reporter - the only combination that could produce a book like this one. -- Daniel Okrent, author of the best-seller Last Call and former public editor of the New York Times, "Almost no one at the start of the pandemic thought it would be possible to develop a COVID-19 vaccine in less than a year. In Longshot , David Heath provides us with a fast-paced, behind the-scenes narrative of one of the great achievements in the history of medicine. It's a story that pulses with scientific genius and persistence, along with shocking episodes of cruelty, stupidity, and greed. Ultimately, it's a tale of extraordinary advances in vaccine science that are saving lives today and putting us in position to better prepare for the infectious diseases of tomorrow." -- Luke Timmerman, founder of Timmerman Report, a biotech industry newsletter
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2021-948602
Dewey Decimal
614.592414061
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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