id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-314188-q8pxpw1f Bradshaw, Ralph A. On pandemics, pandemonium, and possibilities… 2020-05-12 .txt text/plain 1301 57 57 The possibilities that could emerge after the pandemic has wound down are truly unique-a potential watershed moment for science, sparked by a new focus on science teaching and training, and by investments in basic and applied research (including science policy), that could better prepare governments and the citizenry for existential threats in the future: pandemics, climate change, food production, etc. While the management of the 1918-19 flu was hampered by a complete lack of knowledge of the causative agent or how to test for it, 1 the identification and a complete structural analyses of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus 2 occurred very rapidly after the onset of the pandemic in December 2019, and assays of different types for it were developed in just weeks, 3 albeit making these tests widely available has been a major challenge (but this is a political not a medical problem). ./cache/cord-314188-q8pxpw1f.txt ./txt/cord-314188-q8pxpw1f.txt