Opinion

August 12, 2020

Why we still won’t be prepared for the next pandemic

We need a new funding model for drug discovery.


Dmitry Kuzmin

4 min read

The old adage that 'a general is only as good as their last war' is apt when describing the state of the world's medicine cabinet for the fight against Covid-19. Infectious diseases have been killing humans for millennia — from the Black Death to Spanish flu, SARS and Ebola — but we are always on the back foot, never quite able to produce the panacea to prevent these epidemics. Moreover, whilst scientists have been fast to produce an experimental Covid-19 vaccine, due to the lengthy testing process it won’t be ready until 2021, by which time the urgency and emergency of this outbreak will have passed.

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