Right from the birth, one thing which we can’t avoid are vaccines ! They have in modern times become ubiquitous and vital in serving humanity. Yet, when nature strikes hard man loses his balance or grip in the survival fight.
This is evident in many catastrophes in the olden times which swept us fair and square and man overcame every time by his persistence and ingenuity to avoid them the next time when it is repeated.
The more recent of such catastrophes can’t be bigger than COVID-19 which affected people across the world equally killing few millions and affecting hundreds of millions ! Though we were not prepared for such an event somewhere in our senses we were expecting something like it always, thanks to ever expanding human desires for more and more material things at the cost of nature and other beings in the chain.
This book personifies the power of science, collaboration, ingenuity, speed, capitalism and more importantly question of survival which led to finding a mRNA based vaccine ( as opposed to traditional dead or weakened virus stimulated vaccines) whose science is also very recent, with in a year, hence the name “Moonshot”.
There were/are questions on the efficacy of these vaccines, side effects they may pose in the due course of the jab across various race, gender, ages etc. which are all valid from the point of view of science and the speed with which this was achieved. But, the question is what was more important survival or complete information? This book tries to answer those questions along with the details about collaboration b/w industry, government, academia, regulatory bodies, NGO’s, general public etc.
An interesting read for a layman and also to any science enthusiast !
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