How artificial intelligence can transform airports for better public health

Technology is a double-edged sword. The same transportation technologies that improved travel efficiency and brought the world closer, have ironically facilitated the record-breaking spread of Covid-19 and in a way, driven people apart. In this modern day, it is easy for a person to traverse multiple continents within 24 hours, mixing with many people along the way during journeys. In hindsight, it is evident that disease prevention and pandemic management technologies were not developed with a consideration of the potential impacts that enclosed, heavily populated and constrained transportation vehicles might facilitate the communication of disease. We are in fact, still figuring this out.