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  • Chapter 14 - Summary and Path Forward for Future Pandemics

  • Edited by Steven C. Schachter, Harvard Medical School, Wade E. Bolton, VentureWell/Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx)
  • Book:
    Accelerating Diagnostics in a Time of Crisis
    Published online:
    06 January 2024
    Print publication:
    07 March 2024, pp 263-273

  • Summary

    In the face of a rapidly emerging pandemic, there needs to be a concerted and organized response so that the pandemic can be stopped or slowed and patients can be accurately diagnosed and treated. As we learned with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), there was no prescribed roadmap to follow, leaving scientists and clinicians to plan and respond in real time. Although the efforts were heroic in nature, some decisions (if they could be made again) would have been different. In this chapter, we address the lessons learned from the individuals who were on the battlefield in their area of expertise as they chartered their own path. We capture and record the activities that took place so that, going forward, there will be an extensive pandemic response roadmap indicating the activities of this pandemic (including their chronology and duration) for future generations to use as a guiding document to build upon.

Accelerating Diagnostics in a Time of Crisis
  • The Response to COVID-19 and a Roadmap for Future Pandemics
  • Edited by Steven C. Schachter, Wade E. Bolton
  • Published online:
    06 January 2024
    Print publication:
    07 March 2024
  • Those who responded to the COVID-19 pandemic have now had the opportunity to reflect on lessons learned, and in this science and data-rich book, those reflections are presented as a behind-the-scenes chronology of events and discoveries that occurred in COVID-19's wake. Offering a rubric for a future pandemic response, each chapter is written by experts, with their unique perspectives, experience, and learnings woven into visual roadmaps throughout the book. These roadmaps serve as a scaffolding upon which future healthcare leaders can build when creating, implementing and executing operational strategies in the face of future infectious disease outbreaks. Written for both lay and scientific audiences and featuring case studies which give clinical insight into the unique bond between COVID patients, their loved ones and their healthcare providers, this important book allows readers to leverage the knowledge of experts to improve the outcomes of future pandemics.