The potential impact of COVID-19 on therapeutic research worldwide

• Michael Spedding ^[1]
  1. [1] IUPHAR
• Localización: Actualidad en farmacología y terapéutica, ISSN 1698-4277, Vol. 18, Nº. 2, 2020, págs. 80-83
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Therapeutic research and healthcare will be profoundly changed by the SARSCoV-2 virus, in multiple ways. Although, at the time of writing (June 2020) it is still unclear whether the virus will continue to prevent scientific congresses, and will continue to spread worldwide, it has already changed the way medical research is perceived by the public. Priorities have shifted massively. Some of these changes will be very long-lasting, hopefully, because lessons from the first SARS epidemic, were not fully enacted to prepare the world for the different menace of SARS-CoV-2. Even if there is not a second wave of SARS-CoV-2, we will continue to be menaced by future viral outbreaks, and also by epidemics of bacteria which are fully antibiotic resistant, where little is being done, particularly to limit antibiotic use in farming.