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9781546000921
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Algemeen
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18-01-2022
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Hachette Nashville
Auteur(s)
David Heath
Longshot
The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
David Heath
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€13,99
This
is
the
incredible
story
of
the
scientists
who
created
a
coronavirus
vaccine
in
record
time.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
Karikó,
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
Karikó’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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