By Donald Zuhn — One year ago today, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic. At the time of the announcement, the WHO noted that there were 118,000 cases reported globally, but in its most recent situation report, the WHO indicated that as of March 7, 2021 there have been 116,166,652 cases globally. The response to the COVID-19 pandemic by the global biopharmaceutical industry over the past fourteen months has been unprecedented. From December 30, 2019, when SARS coronavirus was first detected in a patient sample, and January 10, 2020, when the complete…
