Self-correction

Here's the end to Ed Yong's "How Science Beat the Virus And What it Lost in the Process," a terrific longread in The Atlantic: 

"The scientific community spent the pre-pandemic years designing faster ways of doing experiments, sharing data, and developing vaccines, allowing it to mobilize quickly when COVID‑19 emerged. Its goal now should be to address its many lingering weaknesses. Warped incentives, wasteful practices, overconfidence, inequality, a biomedical bias—COVID‑19 has exposed them all. And in doing so, it offers the world of science a chance to practice one of its most important qualities: self-correction."

I'd add only that worlds larger than science (say, America on the whole) need to practice self-correction. And humility. And the strength to admit that you're wrong.