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Pandemic ‘Dividend’ Must Not Be Squandered

Diagnostics Companies Press For Higher Priority Status For Data Sharing And Access To Testing

 
• By Ashley Yeo

Maintaining the positive changes that health care delivery underwent at the height of COVID-19 has been the talk of the health care industries, but will commercial organizations retain their enthusiasm once the pressures of the pandemic abate?

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The shock of COVID-19 led many device and diagnostics companies to pivot, rapidly and successfully, to a response mode and then to medium-term coping mechanisms. They learnt much about the inadequacies of even mature health care systems to respond to an extreme public health emergency. Some were confronted with shortcomings of their own.

Many stressed the need for longer-term health care delivery planning and better cross-border collaboration. Excess capacity should be built into...

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