Abstract

How entrepreneurship industry saved COVID fighting nanotechnology? Here Thomas J. Webster, Ph.D. explores how Nanotechnology was crucial in the battle against COVID-19 and how entrepreneurship helped it thrive. Our healthcare system was ill-prepared for a viral pandemic, as well as many other health crises. Our only recourse when COVID emerged was to shut everything down and tell people not to interact for fear of spreading the virus. Stay home. Cancel trips. Do everything virtually. There are few examples of larger healthcare failures than COVID, when the only way to stop a virus from spreading was to tell people to stop seeing each other. Fortunately, vaccines eventually emerged, masks were worn, diagnostic kits were developed, and we have learned to live with SARS-CoV-2. But how did we get to such a dark place in our healthcare system, and what technologies helped us? In my experience, it was nanotechnology.

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