# Example of grant system failure for COVID19 tweet thread Everybody piling onto covid 19 grants regardless of what they were working on Diverting work to work on it screws over long term work People actually working on covid19 stuff don’t have bandwidth to apply for grants See also: * [[Months of grant writing is one of the things that makes people think twice about academia]] [Dr Emma Hodcroft on Twitter: “I want to come back to this:*Our current funding methods stand a good chance of failing #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 research.*Initiatives across the globe are setting up emergency #hCoV19 funding calls. They vary but generally promise extra 💰 into a cash-starved system (research)1/n”](https://twitter.com/firefoxx66/status/1245251019354836992?s=20)