Panel: A Shot to Save the World, The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a Covid-19 Vaccine

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Wall Street Journal reporter and New York Times bestselling author, Gregory Zuckerman, will be a featured guest on a panel discussion about Covid-19 and his newest book: A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a Covid-19 Vaccine. The event will take place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 27 and will be livestreamed for the public.

 

Zuckerman will discuss the gripping story of how some unlikely and untested scientists and executives raced to turn years of underappreciated work into life-saving vaccines at a speed that had never been done before. This unfolded while many of the world’s largest drug and vaccine makers were slow to react to the global threat.

 

Zuckerman talked to more than 300 key players and gained access into the research labs, corporate conversations and government negotiations that drove the mission for a vaccine. His deep reporting chronicles the decades of revolutionary research that put the right people in place to create the right vaccines that would save millions around the world. Zuckerman also shares that important lessons can be learned from this historic success and that it’s expected to fuel future medical breakthroughs. Critics call the book a fast-paced, “thrilling account” and “one of the most exciting dramas in medical history.”

 

The panel discussion will be moderated by Ohio State Wexner Medical Center interim co-leader and chief clinical officer, Dr. Andrew Thomas. In addition to Zuckerman, panelists include Peter Mohler, vice president of research at The Ohio State University and chief scientific officer at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, and Dr. Mysheika Roberts, health commissioner for the City of Columbus.

 

During his visit at Ohio State, Zuckerman will also speak with journalism students as well as faculty and staff from across campus.

 

Zuckerman is a special writer at The Wall Street Journal, a 25-year veteran of the paper and a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award. An author of six books, he appears regularly on CNBC, Fox Business, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg Television and various television networks as well as NPR, BBC, ABC Radio, Bloomberg Radio and radio stations around the globe. Zuckerman is a graduate of Brandeis University and lives with his wife and two sons in West Orange, N.J. 

 

The public is invited to watch the panel discussion via livestream, Thursday at 6 p.m. at this link: https://livestream.com/wosu/zuckerman.

 

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