Hard when you have leadership that doesn’t believe in science
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We are running into 'chicken-and-egg' issues with funding for contact tracing as well.
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@balajis noted that the FDA “has a fundamentally broken culture: they simply don’t understand what an emergency is.” Same with the NIH? An organization might speed up 3x in an emergency, a great one 10x. Almost impossible to speed up 100x. -
NIAID is pretty convincing I think, especially thanks to Fauci. FDA is overrated. CDC and NIAID are both highly recognized health institutions (possibly best in the world). More an issue of distribution than development. Very difficult changing all of consumer sentiment in US.
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This is why I left academia. The way to have an impact on problems is to find a way to get someone to pay you to do it.
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Typing the research effort sponsored by govts proportionate to the economic damage, let alone the health-related impacts, would mean a research spend of an order of magnitude or more larger. Speed of response varies. In Ireland our funders reacted quickly but scale v small.
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Can you direct me to any articles or research on countries borrowing their way out of this or the effects of printing more cash?
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Absolutely. I agree with most of the points you make on this podcast regarding institution funding.https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/econtalk/patrick-collison-on-DEA2Tf3ydI7/ …
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