Amid the pain of a pandemic, the world awaits vaccines and treatments, currently being pursued by a long list of medical researchers. Yet in a recent column in The New York Times, Bret Stephens ruefully observes that “one lesson from this pandemic is how dependent we are for our survival on an innovative and robust pharmaceutical industry. Maybe we should…
In the context of a pandemic, “first responders” are those who take the earliest action on behalf of others in medical distress — nurses, doctors, EMTs, police, firefighters, etc. They are skilled and brave, willing to risk their own health, physical and emotional. They are heroes in the truest sense. But there is another sense of “first response” relevant to…