The invisible race

The book also underlines how vaccine development is dominated by white men, who hate it if someone, especially a woman, that too from a minority, is smarter than them

A Shot to Save the World: The Remarkable Race and Ground- breaking Science Behind the Covid-19 Vaccines

Author: Gregory Zuckerman

Publisher: Viking, an imprint of Penguin 

Pages: 355

Price: Rs 799

Traditionally vaccines take years to develop. Paul Offit, a renowned infectious diseases specialist and rotavirus vaccine developer, held the same view and ridiculed the optimism to develop the Covid-19 vaccine in a year.

On March 16, 2020, however, a few months after the first case of novel coronavirus was detected in China, Jennifer Haller, became the first person to get a Moderna vaccine against Covid-19 in a clinical trial. That’s nothing short of a miracle,