EPM editor Reece Armstrong takes a look back at how the life sciences industry came together in 2020 to fight Covid-19.
Healthcare Workers
It’s fair to say that 2020 has been a tough year. When Covid-19 hit earlier this year, it was difficult to imagine that the virus would still be here come Christmas. Offices emptied as workers were sent home, items flew off shelves as people panic bought goods, and hospital wards filled up with patients who’d contracted a virus that was alien to healthcare workers.
Clinicians came face-to-face with something they didn’t know how to treat. Their usual approach of medicines, therapies and surgical interventions were suddenly not the gold-standard approach they were used to. This simplifies the work of our doctors, nurses, surgeons and everyone else involved in healthcare, but in essence, it’s what they had to deal with when Covid-19 first hit.