This article explains the need for strong action very well:"Strong coronavirus measures today should only last a few weeks, there shouldn’t be a big peak of infections afterwards, and it can all be done for a reasonable cost to society, saving millions of lives along the way. If we don’t take these measures, tens of millions will be infected, many will die, along with anybody else that requires intensive care, because the healthcare system will have collapsed".https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56
A partnership between Advance Queensland, UQ, Federal Government and the Paul Ramsay Foundation has enabled the development and delivery of a COVID vaccine to be brought forward by 6 months.https://lnkd.in/ggDcKQg
Over the last several years, major advances in genomics–specifically, the way diseases manifest and develop in the body at the genetic level–are improving our ability to target illness at each stage and improve the patient experience. As a result, we’re sometimes better able to predict which treatments could be most effective by taking into account patients’ genetic make-up, environment and lifestyle. Perhaps the best example of this approach is CART-19 (University of Pennsylvania) Websitehttp://tiny.cc/n1gplz
The real longer-term crisis is climate change.Ironically our response to a different crisis - the coronavirus pandemic - indicates that it is possible for us to change our ways, but only when there are governmental efforts to support behavioural change, which we have seen with coronavirus and need to see, now, with climate change. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/how-the-coronavirus-crisis-is-helping-improve-the-environment-across-the-world
