Nick Barlow reviewed Vaxxers by Sarah Gilbert
Heavy on science, but worth reading
4 stars
This account of the development of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine combines science and recent history, showing how the team came together to put out a Covid vaccine in such a short time. There's a lot of science in this and it's interesting to see just how casually they describe things that would have seemed miraculous just a couple of decades ago, like the way they manipulate DNA. The book could have been two or three times longer explaining a lot of the intricacies of this, but as it is, it's a fascinating tight read, the pace of it echoing the pace of the creation process.