Get Ready for ‘Where’s My Warp Speed?’

Here's the latest news from the global pandemic:

The scientific community was highly skeptical that just because something was called Operation Warp Speed, it could produce a Covid-19 vaccine in less than a year.

But here we are less than 12 months before the virus first started making its way onto some radar screens and there are two vaccines authorized for emergency use in the U.S.

In another year's time, when we hope to have returned to some kind of normal, what happens to all that impressive streamlining and cooperation?

“I don't think drug development is ever going to be the same,” said Alison Bateman-House, an assistant professor at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine. “I think ALS and metastatic breast cancer and other diseases of high unmet need are going to be demanding ‘Where's my Warp Speed?’”