Forbes March 11, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic seemed to begin all at once. It officially started with a declaration by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. Within days, schools and restaurants closed. The death toll rose. Hospitals were overwhelmed. Our world had changed.
But medical advancements seemed to occur all at once, too. Just seven months after the pandemic’s start, an antiviral that helped reduce disease severity and death became available. Two months after that came highly effective and safe mRNA vaccines. These advancements, however, didn’t actually occur all at once. Their rapid development was possible because of basic research, often federally funded, that had been ongoing for decades.
With funding cuts proposed by President Trump, this basic research is in jeopardy....
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