Will lessons learned from COVID soften the blow during the next pandemic?

Will lessons learned from COVID soften the blow during the next pandemic?

“The science you learn in high school or college is the ‘settled science’ — like ‘two objects dropped in a vacuum will fall at the same rate regardless of size or shape or mass.’ Thanks, Galileo,” said Andrew Noymer, an [associate professor of public health], epidemiologist and demographer at UC Irvine. “So people assume that science is the study of settled matters when, in reality, there’s a lot of arguing over hypotheses and heated debate. That’s the normal state of affairs in science.”