Our hope is science will develop new methods to diagnose pathogens quickly, and the diagnosis of infectious pathogens will be implemented in routine medical practice. We hope for a method to quickly and easily diagnose covid19, that can be used in the home as quickly and easily as pregnancy tests; discovery of new anti-viral medications to treat covid19 and other serious viruses (which are in development); and a new understanding of how to develop vaccines quickly and efficiently to address emerging pathogens. If we had quick, inexpensive, and effective diagnostic tools, and effective treatment for acute infection that could be given at the time of diagnosis, before the pathogen proliferates and causes severe damage, we could quiet the pandemic and the fear, while we wait for an effective vaccine.
We hope for a new understanding that an infectious pathogen, or combination of infectious pathogens can spread silently in the body, and cause more than one disease and/or impact different people differently.
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