This review highlights some of the unprecedented challenges related to COVID-19 that had to be addressed, the activities and areas that enabled the effective response to the COVID-19 emergency and provides recommendations on which improvements are needed.
Accelerated procedures for the evaluation of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, as well as scientific recommendations on the use of certain medicines enabled the public health response through safe and effective prevention and treatment options.
The Network pooled its resources to address the increased workload and new tasks like managing medicine shortages, generating evidence on COVID-19 medicines in the real-world setting and regularly providing reliable and science-based information to the public…
