How Covid Could Launch a New Health Era
On Oct. 4, 1957, Russia shocked the U.S. by launching the world\u2019s first artificial satellite into orbit. Sputnik\u2019s launch ignited a 20-year Space Race that would put men on the moon and push science and technology forward leaps and bounds. Now, as COVID-19 shocks the world again, Regina Dugan says we could be entering a new era marked by big breakthroughs in medical science.
\n\nDugan, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and CEO of Wellcome Leap, says this Health Age could lower research costs, speed up clinical trials and improve mental health treatments \u2014 and bring us a coronavirus vaccine along the way. The first step in all of this? Capturing the nation\u2019s imagination to go beyond what we think possible.