Max Bayer is a pharma reporter at Endpoints News. He joined from Fierce Biotech where he spent more than two years reporting on all corners of the biotech industry. He previously spent more than three years at CBS News, covering the twists and turns of the COVID-19 pandemic, from infection trends to CDC guidelines. A Bay Area native, Max graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018 and now lives in Brooklyn, rooting on northern California sports teams and biking around the borough (with a helmet, of course).