I'm not sure how this would contradict what I wrote, I totally agree that the observation of the patients is the one thing where you can't really speed things u

I'm not sure how this would contradict what I wrote, I totally agree that the observation of the patients is the one thing where you can't really speed things up much. It's inherently serial, no matter how much money and manpower you shove at it, but I don't see how this is true of many of the other stages mentioned upthread. Do you? I wonder if the downvoters fully understand that Covid-19 is a big deal. If we don't manage to eradicate it and it becomes as common as the (various strains of) cold, we will likely take a big hit to global life expectancy. It may also evolve to become more virulent and we may yet discover various unpleasant things about it. Even if it stays exactly as it is now and we just let it run it's course and get 70-80% of world population infected, before eradicating it in say two years time with a vaccine, we will eat a huge, multi-year dip in life expectancy in the developed world. And clearly, we are not accelerating this yet in ways that are completely safe (e.g. would we have more and better volunteers faster and more regularly if we paid them more than $100 for each visit?).