Innovations in the time of COVID-19

World War I hastened the development of tanks aircraft carriers mobile X-ray machines; reconstructive surgery, which led to plastic surgery, helped thousands of soldiers that suffered severe facial injuries and burns. World War II saw the advent of radars, computers such as ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the atomic bomb and nuclear energy, helicopters, pressurized air cabins, the jet engine, V2 missiles and guided weapons; on the medical front, improvements in blood transfusions, skin grafts and antibacterial treatment, including the commercial production of penicillin, discovered at the end of the 1920s. Home telephones became more popular during the flu pandemic of 1918, they were sometimes used for ordering food instead of going to shops, and even for distance learning when schools were closed in the Los Angeles area! One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, technological and scientific advances are flourishing, with varying degrees of success. In February 2020, who would have bet on a vaccine being approved in less than a year?