COVID-19 Hangover -- Part II

In part I of the blog I wrote about the most acute problem our society faces today - the Climate Crisis, and how we can leverage the pandemic-caused lockdown to analyze the consequences as data points for the "what-if" scenario to make better decisions in the future. While Climate Crisis should be addressed timely and aggressively, COVID-19 posed a health crisis for the governments to deal with the projection of 80% of the population being infected in the short term. How will health systems manage the prevention, diagnostics, and treatment of the pandemic in parallel to provide the ongoing services and treatments? In this part, I will present a few developments in telemedicine, personalized medicine and drug development powered by AI/ML and how they better equipped us in this fight and could be used routinely in the future. Telemedicine is a buzzword we used to hear in the context of highly populated countries with a lack of trained personnel trying to bridge the supply and demand with remote resourcing.