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I feel like people keep forgetting the definition of "public health crisis."
Time is lives. And economic dollars.
The standard process is designed around limiting harm. Not rapid delivery. Not maximizing good.
In times of business as usual, that's fine. In times of public health crises, it's not.
If we'd rapid approved HIV / AIDS treatments in the 1980s, the world as a whole would have been better.
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I feel like people keep forgetting the definition of "public health crisis."
Time is lives. And economic dollars.
The standard process is designed around limiting harm. Not rapid delivery. Not maximizing good.
In times of business as usual, that's fine. In times of public health crises, it's not.
If we'd rapid approved HIV / AIDS treatments in the 1980s, the world as a whole would have been better.