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ajlm-1447	Okeke, Iruka N.	African laboratory medicine in the time of COVID-19	2020		.htm	text/html	2480	149	54	The pandemic is a frontal challenge to weak systems, but it also offers opportunities to develop them and build resilience, if the response is implemented with this in mind.6 For example, future procurement could be templated on more generally applicable network approaches to procurement and supply chain management outlined by Williams et al. for HIV, forestalling the procurement crises experienced in Africa with COVID-19 testing and personal protective equipment supplies.7,8 SARS-CoV-2 is not the only epidemic pathogen that circulated in Africa in 2020. While most pandemic activity has focused on reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and other forms of testing to support the identification of cases and transmission chains,10 other domains of laboratory medicine have made important contributions that shed more light on the pathogenesis of the disease, and therefore how best to improve treatment.19,20 As clinical and laboratory health workers and the scientific community engaged in discoveries to combat the pandemic, another equally frenetic behind-the-scenes response took place in editorial offices as we, gratefully helped by volunteer reviewers, struggled under the mound of COVID-19 submissions to bring to the fore discoveries that are most worthy of priority and long-term attention.	cache/ajlm-1447.htm	txt/ajlm-1447.txt