The Vaccine Wars
Inside the Science, Politics, and Power Struggles That Decide Which Diseases We DefeatBy K. Balachander
Length8h 29m
About this audiobook
The miracle is the vaccine. The scandal is everything that comes after.
Every year, science saves millions of lives with a needle. Every year, the system behind that needle fails millions more.
This is the story of the most powerful - and most broken - enterprise in modern medicine. From the H1N1 scramble of 2009 to the COVID-19 emergency authorizations to the H5N1 threat now crossing into human cases, one pattern keeps emerging: the same platforms that compressed a decade of vaccine development into eleven months still cannot reach the children who need them most.
Fourteen and a half million children received no vaccine doses at all in the same year Moderna earned $19 billion.
Reported across five worlds - the laboratory, the boardroom, the Geneva conference room, the manufacturing floor, and the communities left behind - this account tracks the scientists who cracked the mRNA code, the institutions that wield it, and the manufacturers who profit from it.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.3 (12)
Includes Amazon
GenreHealth and Wellness, Science and Nature
Length8 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Acknowledgments
3Chapter 1: The Hundred Days
4Chapter 2: Twenty-Three Rejections
5Chapter 3: The Prefusion Spike
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6Chapter 4: The Geneva Blueprint
7Chapter 5: Mainz
8Chapter 6: Oxford
9Chapter 7: Between Emergencies
10Chapter 8: Pune
11Chapter 9: Gqeberha
12Chapter 10: The Waiver
13Chapter 11: Warp Speed
14Chapter 12: The Routine Gap
15Chapter 13: The R21 Question
16Chapter 14: The Hesitancy Map
17Chapter 15: The Antigen Library
18Chapter 16: The Authorization
19Chapter 17: Kigali
20Chapter 18: Wuhan, Counterfactual
21Chapter 19: The TB Question
22Chapter 20: The HPV Decade
23Chapter 21: West Texas
24Chapter 22: The Reciprocity Question
25Chapter 23: The Long View
26Chapter 24: The Hundred Days, Again
27Character Guide
28References & Bibliography
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