Covid-19 roundup: Pfizer CEO Bourla to write book about vaccine arms race; Chinese mRNA shot set for PhIII trial in Mexico
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has inked a deal with Harper Business for a book to tell the “behind-the-scenes” story of the company’s race to develop a vaccine, the Associated Press reports.
The book is titled “Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible” and is set to be released Nov. 9. Bourla plans to donate the proceeds to charity, the AP reported.
Bourla helped drive Pfizer’s unprecedented race to an emergency use authorization in just nine months, a previously unheard-of pace for vaccine development. And since, he’s worked to protect the intellectual property that undergirded that work.
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