Abstract
The crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic is probably one of the biggest crises that has affected civilization in the last hundred years. This refers to the number of infected and dead, but also to the economic, psychological, political, moral and other spheres. Science and scientific research during the pandemic was mainly focused on finding ways to prevent and treat the C-19 virus. Within medical science, epidemiology was treated separately during the pandemic, as a branch of medicine, while other sciences were neglected or put in the background, which limited the potentials of medical science in the C-19 pandemic. Analyzes show that a small number of scientific papers and research have focused on non-medical sciences and the place and role of non-medical professions in the fight against C-19, which is illogical, given that a pandemic is not just a medical phenomenon but a multidisciplinary problem that should be answered, with synchronized use of information, economic, organizational management, ethical and other sciences. It is shown that the impact of the pandemic on science and scientific research has not been investigated globally, nor at the level of Serbia, ie whether and to what extent the pandemic has affected the dynamics, aggravating or facilitating conditions for science and scientific research. This paper also discusses the problems of science and scientific cooperation during the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on science, scientific research and cooperation, and cooperation between scientific researchers at the international level. The aim of this paper is to point out some difficulties and obstacles in scientific work and cooperation and to suggest possible solutions.
Highlights
The management of the pandemic crisis has been inconsistent since its inception; in many elements it was unclear and contrary to scientific and logical conclusions and actions
The world on a global level came to a situation where the pandemic is managed by medical experts through the institute of crisis headquarters, who during medical education had almost no contact with sciences such as organization, management, crisis management, operational research, system theory, chaos theory, etc
It is evident from the above that science in the pandemic came under the great influence of politics and that even the medical profession was subordinated to politics, ie to politicking
Summary
The management of the pandemic crisis has been inconsistent since its inception; in many elements it was unclear and contrary to scientific and logical conclusions and actions. The world on a global level came to a situation where the pandemic is managed by medical experts through the institute of crisis headquarters, who during medical education had almost no contact with sciences such as organization, management, crisis management, operational research, system theory, chaos theory, etc. There is no need to explain just how wrong this is, because it turns out that the damage from the C-19 pandemic was far greater than investing in infrastructure, technology, and in human resources that would serve to protect the population from infection and for the treatment of infected Even when these capacities are not used, they are the most cost-effective, such as firefighters and medical experts, who are most useful when they do not have work to perform. It is to be expected that those sides of sciences and scientific research that have proven to be poor will be eliminated, both in future pandemics and in normal times, and that cooperation in the scientific field will be strengthened, especially when it comes to medical science, which deals with health and people's lives
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