10/ Overall, highly recommend reading the book. We're truly blessed to be living in a world awash with biomedical researchers who spend decades in their labs trying to perfect science and technology of protecting and curing us of all sorts of diseases.

The book does a very good job making clear the vaccine program wasn't a case of august mechanisms working neatly as designed. It was a case of stubborn iconoclasts persevering in the face of opprobrium, doubt, and endless setbacks... and saving the world.

[link] from @GZuckerman, about the creation of the COVID vaccines, is terrific.