A Shot to Save the World- Did It?

17 min readDec 19, 2022

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An interesting read this book makes. Reviewed at the request of a colleague.

Happiness: The world is so full of a number of things I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson

A Shot to Save the World chronicles a number of events that contributed to the rapid deployment of COVID-19 vaccines under FDA’s emergency use authorization (EUA). Its author, Greg Zuckerman is a…

Aditi Bhargava

Written by Aditi Bhargava

Dr. Aditi Bhargava is a molecular neuroendocrinologist with research focus on sex differences in stress biology and immunology.

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