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Opinion: Five years ago, early career researchers needed help to survive the pandemic. Now they need it again
A generation of scientists and their future work will be lost if the U.S. doesn’t act now.
Five years ago, the Covid-19 pandemic swept through the world, resulting in massive disruptions, including to biomedical researchers. As National Institutes of Health-funded physician-scientists, we collectively experienced the pitfalls of lab closures, pauses in clinical trial recruitment due to staffing issues and social distancing policies affecting in-person accrual, and redeployment away from research work to the frontlines to support clinical care.
While all scientists faced these barriers, one group was at particular risk.
