Leigh Martinuzzi

The First Shots In THE FIRST SHOTS—currently under development for an HBO limited series with superstar director and producer Adam McKay, Brendan draws on his exclusive and high-level access to weave together an incredible story about the hard-driving scientists, billionaire entrepreneurs, and chaotic political power players who shaped 18 pandemic months of fear, resolve, and triumph. Brendan and I enjoy a healthy conversation about his research and some of the controversy and confusion surrounding the pandemic. The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine Guest Bio. BRENDAN BORRELL is an Outside magazine correspondent and has written on science, health, and business for The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, National Geographic, Wired, and the New York Times. Borrell lives in Los Angeles, and The First Shots is his first book.