Vaxxers, Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green

<b>THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> BESTSELLER AND RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK</b> <b>*Chosen as a Book of the Year by the <i>Financial Times</i>, <i>Sunday Times</i>, <i>Daily Mail</i>, <i>Prospect</i>, <i>Guardian</i> and <i>The Times*</i></b> <b>This is the story of a race - not against other vaccines or other scientists, but against a deadly and devastating virus.</b> On 1 January 2020, Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article about four people in China with a strange pneumonia. Within two weeks, she and her team had designed a vaccine against a pathogen that no one had ever seen before. Less than 12 months later, vaccination was rolled out across the world to save millions of lives from Covid-19. In <i>Vaxxers</i>, we hear directly from Professor Gilbert and her colleague Dr Catherine Green as they reveal the inside story of making the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine and the cutting-edge science and sheer hard work behind it. This is their story of fighting a pandemic as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Sarah and Cath share the heart-stopping moments in the eye of the storm; they separate fact from fiction; they explain how they made a highly effective vaccine in record time with the eyes of the world watching; and they give us hope for the future. <i>Vaxxers</i> invites us into the lab to find out how science will save us from this pandemic, and how we can prepare for the inevitable next one.