Shifting goalposts: Research in the time of the coronavirus

ISLAMABAD, July 14 (online): The COVID-19 pandemic has turned life, travel, and the economy upside down all around the world. But what impact has it had on research and research practices, in general?

Dr. Oldenburg commented on some unexpected ways in which the pandemic has affected how scientists conduct their research.

Items that were readily available before the pandemic, such as laboratory or clinical trial supplies, have become more difficult to get hold of due to restrictions on international movement.

“It’s interesting how many things we took for granted before COVID-19 — you know, moving of supplies,” Dr. Oldenburg remarked in the interview.

What else has changed in the landscape of research as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic?

With the world facing a new coronavirus, the immediate focus across the research community is  rightly so  on finding vaccines and treatments that will work effectively against SARS-CoV-2.

But what has happened to the rest of the medical research centered around equally important causes?

after the pandemic started, COVID-19-related research almost monopolized the publication’s focus, to the detriment of other topics.

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