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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