Everybody early in two thousand 20 kind of said, yes, let's build vaccines built around the spike protein. Because that's the key to the is how it latches on to the ty cells. So you want to introduce a protein that is key to that virus to educate the immune system. And they were right. For a long time, it was. It failed over and over again in attempts to implement itn in in well first and mice, right? And an another before he got to humans.
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.