What we learned doing Fast Grants
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What we learned doing Fast Grants
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#2The US has created so much bureaucracy, it's hard to imagine clawing ourselves out from under it.
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#3We need to fix our economy to encourage the flow of money to productive ideas and individuals.
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#4This is worth reading all the way through for anyone with an interest in science and innovative projects.
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#5Well worth the read, although I would have liked to have seen more depth on “what could have gone better”.
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#6> Most importantly, Fast Grants didn’t change the vaccine timeline, and vaccines were clearly the most important component of the response.
They are being really intellectually honest here. One thing you couldn't apply for for Fast Grants was a media effort to convince people to take the vaccine.
And speaking of the power of individuals, Robert De Niro (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et...) and other A-Listers actively campaign against vaccines. Fauci said he wishes DiCaprio would endorse the vaccine - as Fast Grants said, pretty obvious - and of course DiCaprio hasn't, he thinks vaccines cause autism.
Were there any institutions who were adversaries to vaccine adoption?
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#7The US went all in on vaccines. I'm disappointed but not surprised that the US didn't fund more academic R&D; that's the MO I expected during that administration.
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#8> Making human clinical trials cheaper and quicker is probably one of the biggest opportunities for improving U.S. healthcare both during and beyond pandemics.
The failure to accelerate vaccine development through challenge testing is a black mark on our ethical and regulatory system. the Moderna vaccine mRNA was developed two days after COVID-19 was identified, yet it took over a year to get through human testing. All the while, willing volunteers stood by at https://www.1daysooner.org
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#9Individuals are more ready to take risks than institutions.
To me this was the most damning indictment of all. Once founders leave a compnay (or an institution), as BalajiS says, they become a shell of their former selves,with the individuals mostly in for self-preservation rather than set out fulfill the purpose of the institution.
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#10Fast Grants, but to fight climate change?