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Describe the role of science and technology in enabling us to face the challenges triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Science, Technology and Social Change

The pandemic was the first global emergency met in real time by a networked scientific system. Within a year of the virus's genome being published in January 2020, societies possessed vaccines, genomic surveillance and a digital substitute for much of ordinary life. What technology enabled is undeniable; what it could not equalise is the sociological…

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  • The biomedical response
  • Reorganising the delivery of services
  • The inequality attached to each capability
  • Conclusion

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