What have we learnt so far from COVID-19?

While COVID-19 shows us the enormous power of modern molecular medicine, it also reminds us of the basic contradictions and limitations of the human condition. As it is highly likely we will experience further such events through the twenty-first century, we should regard COVID-19 as a training run for something that could be much worse, and organize our governance, global interactions, institutions and practices accordingly. In this World View article, eminent immunologist Peter Doherty suggests that we should consider the COVID-19 crisis as a training run for future, potentially worse pandemics and organize accordingly.