The First Shots

<P><B>The full inside story of the high-stakes, global race for the lifesaving vaccine to end the pandemic</B><BR/><BR/> 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.<I>The First Shots</I>, soon to bethe subject of an HBO limited series with superstar director and producer Adam McKay (<I>Succession, Vice, The Big Short</I>), 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.<BR/><BR/> 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 Stephane Bancel of upstart Moderna Therapeutics going toe-to-toe with pharma behemoth Pfizer,<I>The First Shots</I>lays bare, in a way we have not seen, the full stunning story behind the medical science';moon shot' of our lifetimes.</P>