Pfizer head Albert Bourla writing book about Covid vaccine

Pfizer Chairman and CEO Dr. Albert Bourla can now look back and tell the incredible story

NEW YORK -- Pfizer Chairman and CEO Dr. Albert Bourla can now tell the incredible story. Bourla has a deal with Harper Business for what the publisher is calling “an exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story” of how the drugmaker managed to develop an effective vaccine against COVID-19 in a remarkably short period of time — months instead of years. Bourla's “Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible” is scheduled to come out Nov. 9. “I am sharing the story of our moonshot — the challenges we faced, the lessons we learned, and the core values that allowed us to make it happen — in hopes that it might inspire and inform your own moonshot, whatever that may be," Bourla, 59, said in a statement. Financial terms were not disclosed. Bourla plans to donate any proceeds to charity.