There are also improvements in prevention; screenings, HPV vaccine, whatever.
Given that we have relatively constant cancer death rates it’s unclear whether the changes in cancer screenings are improvements. They might very well about taking organs from people who would otherwise live healthy lives if they wouldn’t be screened.
Oh, and they turned around a vaccine against a relatively novel pandemic virus in under a year.
You could do that with inactivated viruses the way Sinopharm and Sinovac do, also in 1970. The last year saw a lot of burocracy that made vaccine production harder and there’s a good chance that people in 1970 would have been better at producing and administering vaccine’s then we are today.
They identified that virus, sequenced its genome, and did a ton of other characterization on its structure and action, in time that would definitely have sounded like science fiction in 1970.
We have a relatively poor understanding of action. We don’t have crucial information about the long-term effects of getting infected. Our instiutions took an embarrasingly long time to recognize that masks are a good idea.
Some of those issues though are political, not technological. Albeit it can certainly be argued that one of the causes of stagnation is that it’s the political and social institutions that have become inadequate at incentivising true innovation.
Given that we have relatively constant cancer death rates it’s unclear whether the changes in cancer screenings are improvements. They might very well about taking organs from people who would otherwise live healthy lives if they wouldn’t be screened.
You could do that with inactivated viruses the way Sinopharm and Sinovac do, also in 1970. The last year saw a lot of burocracy that made vaccine production harder and there’s a good chance that people in 1970 would have been better at producing and administering vaccine’s then we are today.
We have a relatively poor understanding of action. We don’t have crucial information about the long-term effects of getting infected. Our instiutions took an embarrasingly long time to recognize that masks are a good idea.
Some of those issues though are political, not technological. Albeit it can certainly be argued that one of the causes of stagnation is that it’s the political and social institutions that have become inadequate at incentivising true innovation.