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https://doi.org/10.55752/amwa.2021.10Abstract
You and I as medical communicators are fortunate to be living in a time that reasonably can be characterized as a medical renaissance period. Meaningful, rapid advances in research, preventive, and treatment-oriented medicine are in evidence not just in our professional but also our personal lives. Witness the emergence of not one but multiple COVID-19 vaccines that have been developed and approved in a strikingly short period of time relative to how long previous vaccines have taken to go from virus identification and characterization to vaccine candidate development to shots in arms. With recently embraced messenger RNA technology, as just one example of contemporary research-based medical advancement, have we vanquished the typical 10+ year timeframe to develop a safe and effective vaccine? Multiply this concept across tens of thousands of areas of medical advancement and you grasp the magnitude of our progress.
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