Two Key Takeaways From a Year of Pandemic Research

Invited Foreward: The achievements realized in the last year of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) research are nothing short of astonishing; the virus was sequenced, clinical tests were established, the epidemiology was characterized, numerous therapeutics were tested, and a number of different vaccines were developed and approved. Gains that would typically take years were realized in months, with progress documented through tens of thousands of scholarly publications disseminated globally, most of them available for free.