Name: Moonshot
ISBN: 9780063210790

Albert Bourla

Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible

Moonshot

Jeffrey Jose

The book has 2 distinct sections. The first half is the moonshot story you're expecting to read. Working against time, making every day count as hundreds of people fall sick and die all around the world, taking bold (and educated) risks in pursuit of a novel vaccine against COVID.

The second half gets into negotiations, politics and logistics of how to get the vaccines into the hands of countries all around the world. 

IMO, Albert Bourla did a tremendous job shepherding his company to deliver something the whole world was waiting for, and that's not a small feat. I teared up a little in the first half of the book.

The very last chapter could have been cut, and it has nothing to do with COVID or vaccine, but his vision for how we (pharma, biotech, countries and patients) can work together.

Moonshot Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible

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