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Collaboration is the cure for COVID-19
The pandemic is global. It cannot be controlled by local action alone.
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The past 12 months have been marked by tragedy and triumph, pain and progress, despair and hope. As we enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic and sense its waning days on the horizon, we have reasons for optimism: multiple vaccines, novel treatments, an unprecedented amount of knowledge about a once-mystifying disease caused by a never-before-seen human pathogen â all achieved in less than a year. But as we look back and celebrate our collective successes, we would be remiss if we did n
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HMS Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Core Faculty-Wyss Institute
HM News: One year in, where do we stand with diagnostics compared to where we were last year?
Walt: There’s been a huge amount of progress with diagnostics. At the beginning, what the public and perhaps many in the field didn’t fully realize was the gargantuan amount of testing that’s required to keep a global pandemic in check. We needed on the order of three times the total installed diagnostic testing capacity in the world at the time.
There were a lot of frustrations with respect to how fast things came online. But you have to understand, there weren’t any diagnostic tests for COVID-19 back when the pandemic hit. The fact that we even had molecular tools like RT-PCR and reagents to detect the virus is a testament to how much science and technology have advanced over the past several decades.