. >> , reported the new york times and really happy to be here tonight to talk with brendan borrell, my friend and fellow journalist about his new book, "the first shots". >> either. >> it is amazing it to have you with us and your telling of what happened behind the scenes and learned so much reading the book and tell me a little bit about how you gotot started it and abt the genesis of the book and when did you first come up with the idea and why this. >> well, as we all experience in the beginning of 2020, he was a very chaotic and a confusing time and am a freelance journalist for magazines and i was planning on a year in this pandemic it was unfolding and basically my project that get pushed down the line as i traveled that is booted to the screens and reading quite often your articles. you are in the thick of it. and here i am remote freelancer to figure out how i contributed my skills to the project and i think this is the first step from you was that i hold up in all sorts of mind, the doctor for massachusetts general hospital's michael, and he is like this infectious disease

. >> i am happy to be here tonight to talk with my fellow science journalist brendan borrell about his new book "the first shots". it is amazing to read your telling of what happened behind the scenes was i learned so much reading your book was how do you get started? when did you first come up with the idea and why this? >> experience in the beginning of 2020. it is a confusing time. i was planning when this pandemic was unfolding of all my projects got pushed down the line and i was glued to the screen reading quite often your articles. you were in the thick of it and here i am a remote freelancer trying to figure out how to contribute my skills to this project and the first step was calling up an old source of mine, doctor from massachusetts hospital named michael callahan, a swashbuckling infectious disease guy dropping into hot zones from all over the world. i read a profile of him 10 years earlier, he was doing something interesting. i finally reached him and he says i just got back from wuhan and i'm working for the trump administration. i will keep talking to you. >> a really i

i'm a reporter at the new york times and i'm really happy to be here tonight to talk with brendan borrell my friend and fellow science journalist about his new book the first we will talk about his new book. >> as we all experience from the beginning of 2020 it was very chaotic and confusing hours planning out my year in basically they all had to be pushed back down the line. and then reading the articles and here i am is a remote freelancer how can i contribute my skills to this project? in the first step for me is i call that an old source of mine from massachusetts generalah hospital. and the infectious disease guy and had rich in profiles you know he's doing something interesting and set i just got back from wuhan and i'm working for the trump administration. >> that's amazing he's an interesting character but it really takes you into the action right away that you said you were reading a lot of my articles butut it's crazy to so how did you make the decision or how did you gather your information on a daily or hourly or weekly basis quick. >> it's very hard what to focus on. so i tal

borrell my friend and fellow journalists about his new book, "the first shots." hi, brinton. it's amazing to have lived this and then you're telling of what happened behind the scenes. iso learned so much reading your book. so tell me a a little bite abt how you got started. tell me about the genesis of the book. when did you firstth come up wih the idea and why this? >> well, juneau, as we all experienced in the beginning of 2020 it was a a very chaotic and confusing time. i'm a freelance journalist writing for different magazines and us is planning out my yea pandemic was unfolding and basically all of my projects kind of hadad to get pushed back down the line. there was no travel, no business and i was glued to the screen reading quite often your articles. you are in the thick of it, and here i am, this remote for electric under figure okay, how do i contribute my skills to this project? i think the first step for me was i called up an old source of mine, he's a doctor from massachusetts general hospital named michael callahan, and he's like this swashbuckling

. >> , reported the new york times and really happy to be here tonight to talk with brendan borrell, my friend and fellow journalist about his new book, "the first shots". >> either. >> it is amazing it to have you with us and your telling of what happened behind the scenes and learned so much reading the book and tell me a little bit about how you gotot started

borrell my friend and fellow journalists about his new book, "the first shots." hi, brinton. it's amazing to have lived this and then you're telling of what happened behind the scenes. iso learned so much reading your book. so tell me a a little bite abt how you got started. tell me about the genesis of the book. when didou