Alchemy 34

Pharmacy, pharmaceutical science and the pandemic

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the word “unprecedented” was suddenly on everybody’s lips.

If you received an email from an organisation whose mailing list you subscribed to, whether they sold shoes or dispensed health advice, chances are you saw it. And as tired as it became, there was truth behind the cliché.

Nobody alive had witnessed a worldwide health crisis of this nature. It quickly overwhelmed existing systems and challenged venerable institutions. It became clear that this was an all-hands-on-deck situation, with the deck being vaccine development, hospitals and health services, vaccine administration and so on.

In this section of Alchemy we speak to the people at Monash involved in the response to the pandemic, those who have gone to often-extraordinary lengths to combat a public health phenomenon the likes of which we haven’t seen before.

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