RE: Cancer outlook markedly worse in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic

Well it has hit the healthcare and medical research in many ways. On one hand it was anticipated that overburdening of the healthcare infrastructure would lead to increased morbidity and mortality not just of covid19 patients but also of patients suffering from other ailments such as cancer. Lockdown was never an ultimate solution but it would have definitely helped us in buying time. I mean we tried by nevertheless the pandemic exploded and we saw an overburdened medical infrastructure. On one hand where patients took the hit of overburdened system, on the other hand data is also in on how cancer research funding was affected. Overall, it has been a really grim time.