What do you think we learned from this past pandemic that we could apply to the future?
Bertagnolli: Oh, many things. We learned about very rapid generation and deployment of testing materials through programs that were an amazing collaboration between NIH researchers and others across HHS. We learned about community level responses in 2020 through 2024, which are very different. Our world, our healthcare delivery system, our country is different than it ever has been before. So we learned about how to deliver care as well as vaccines across a really broad and diverse nation.
We also learned about some of the challenges of performing this kind of research, staying on top of variants that come and go, developing both vaccines as well as treatment modalities for the specific agent. And then finally, we learned a lot about conducting research. We learned we could do much more remotely, both to care for people and also to conduct really critical research.
THIS PERSON is not Laurie Garrett (look up her name, she is a straight shooter and is NOT politically sagacious ......I would have been keenly interested in Garrett's views.....to bad he did not interview her.
