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This week's ekon talk is about the life or death race for a coven 19 of vaccine. Our guest is gregory zurkerman of the wall street journal. He was here on the programme in june 20 14 to talk about his book, the frackers. We'd love to hear from you. Go to econ talk dot org and comment on this episode.

In the race for a COVID vaccine, how did a couple of companies who had never produced a successful vaccine make it to the finish line so quickly? Gregory Zuckerman talks about his book, A Shot to Save the World, with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the daring, deranged, and damaged visionaries behind one of science and medicine's great success stories.