Believe it or not, this pandemic has actually done some good things for us. Author: Monica Robins Updated: 12:00 AM EST February 24, 2021 CLEVELAND — We have never experienced a year like this in our lifetime. A global pandemic, impacting every person on the planet. One of the biggest impacts we witnessed thought was how fast science shared the knowledge it learned on the front lines to those creating treatments back in the lab. Within months, not years, game-changing treatments like Remdesivir and monoclonal antibodies arrived at the patient’s bedside. And of course, vaccines. The record for the last vaccine to go from lab to market was four years. Moderna and Pfizer did it in less than nine months.