The Pandemic Uncovered Ways to Speed Up Science – WIRED (Saloni Dattani | October 2022)
The accepted wisdom is that careful research to develop new treatments take many years, if not decades. It is the reason why there has been such a delay between the commencement of clinical trials and the availability of the treatment. That is why some worried that the availability of Covid treatments was an indication the research been rushed and so the vaccines where are unsafe. The reasoning being, fast research couldn’t be quality research. However, the response to the pandemic has shown it’s possible to do quality research research quickly.