COVID QUESTIONS | anything good?

Has anything good come from the pandemic?

COLLEEN KELLY: “While we are dealing with vaccine hesitancy, we have also ignited a global interest in and love of vaccines and vaccinology that had tapered off before the COVID-19 pandemic. Certainly there are no silver linings to COVID-19, with so many millions dead, but for young scientists to be inspired to commit their careers to vaccinology, that’s a great thing. And I think countries and governments are going to reexamine their public health systems, reexamine vaccines from development to deployment and all steps in between, to improve health for everyone. 

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Certainly there are no silver linings, with so many millions dead, but for young scientists to be inspired to commit their careers to vaccinology, that's a great thing.” 
Colleen Kelley, associate professor, infectious diseases, School of Medicine, assistant professor, epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health