Vaxxers: The Inside Story
Vaxxers: The Inside Story is an engrossing and motivational narrative of our ongoing battle to build a working vaccine that can stop the spread of the Covid-19 virus. It recounts the intriguing story of two different scientists who did something genuinely astonishing at a rate that few people believed feasible.
So why was the book released and what it entails exactly? On January 1, 2020, Sarah Gilbert, a professor of vaccine development at Oxford University, saw an article about four individuals in China who had an unusual kind of pneumonia.
Within three weeks, Sarah and her colleagues had created a vaccination against this hitherto unknown virus. Less than a year later, vaccinations were administered globally to save thousands of people's lives from Covid-19. As a result, in her book Vaxxers: The Inside Story, Sarah and one of her colleagues, Dr. Catherine Green, disclosed the inside story of the creation of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, as well as the cutting-edge technology and sheer labor involved.
Sarah and Cath recount all the heart-stopping instances they encountered in the heart of the storm, separate reality from fiction, explain how they created an extremely effective medical solution in record speed as the whole world is watching, and offer us a glimpse of hope for the future. The book welcomes us inside the laboratory to see how science can rescue us from this epidemic, and how we should be well-prepared for the next one - which might be unavoidable.
Year of Release: 2021
Author: Sarah Gilbert
Goodreads Score: 4.44/5
