I think there will be lessons learned. I think the first and foremost one is that we were caught flat-footed. We didn't have adequate supplies of personal protective equipment for health care workers and we had drug shortages, as has been mentioned.
I think in particular that we don't have enough ventilators and other necessary equipment and beds. They were cut short in our health human resource planning. As mentioned, we don't have an adequate number of emergency physicians or other physicians and other health care workers available, particularly if they get sick or burnt out or, might I add, refuse to go to work, which is their right if they are put in harm's way without personal protective equipment. I think there are a lot of lessons that we didn't learn from SARS or H1N1 in appropriate planning.
However, I also think this was a global problem. I don't think there was a health care system in the world that was adequately prepared for the magnitude of this pandemic and the rapidity with which it has fallen upon us.
In sum, yes, I think we've already learned some of those lessons for the next time around, and I hope for dealing with the second and even third waves of COVID-19 that are likely to come.