(10/26/21) No one was prepared for what happened when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China in January of 2020. Politicians, government officials, business leaders and public-health professionals were seemingly unable to do anything to while the most devastating pandemic in a century ravaged local communities. As Wall Street Journal investigative journalist Gregory Zuckerman describes in his book A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, the world’s biggest drug and vaccine makers were slow to react, leaving it up to a small group of untested scientists and executives to quite literally save civilization. Join us for a look at the race to the discovery that changed everything in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.