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Right Now, There Should Only Be One Priority
In the face of a global emergency, leadership is more important than ever: all companies should be willing to put all the resources they can at the service of their country’s administration to get the vaccines administered and to stop infections and de…
Vaccination Passports Are The Only Way We Can Return To Normality
To what extent should a society protect those who are willing to become a vector for the spread of a dangerous disease? If we’ve been doing that for ages to travel to certain countries, what’s the problem with doing so to help tackle a pandemic that ha…
How The Pandemic Set In Motion The Messenger RNA Revolution
The huge push for a vaccine based on messenger RNA (mRNA) against Covid-19 is beginning to bear fruit. As a result, we can expect many more advances, one or several Nobel prizes, and possibly, a whole revolution in the treatment of multiple infectious …
The Vaccination Rollout Will Only Work If It’s Driven By Technology
Verifying who is vaccinated and who is not should mean creating apps, secure and reliable databases, scannable codes, authenticated and unbreakable record keeping, and above all, communication between different systems at different levels and across d…
Rather Than Saving Thanksgiving Or Christmas, Let’s Save Lives Instead
Despite warnings, bookings for the festive season are booming. But family celebrations are one of the most effective ways to spread the virus: we abandon all cautions, forget social distancing, and can’t keep a mask on when eating or drinking. Do not r…
Now We’ve Found The First Covid-19 Vaccine, Let’s Keep Calm And Not Return To The Past
Even if a successful vaccine becomes available, we must resist the temptation to simply slide back to the same normality that got us into so much trouble in the first place. It would be a historical mistake to do so.
Hang In There: Easy-To-Use, Low-Cost Covid Tests Are On The Way
It won’t be long before technology will have come up with low-cost, easy-to-use and reliable test kits that we could use, for example, when friends or family visit our homes, when we attend an event. That will give us a greater sense of normality and (…
How Data From Wearables Will Revolutionize Healthcare
As technology continues to create boundless new possibilities, the future of medicine will increasingly be about monitoring, data abundance, algorithms and prevention. The sooner we embrace this, the better.
How Coronavirus Is Helping Drive The Digitalization Of Healthcare
The combination of better and cheaper sensors, machine learning and telemedicine through advanced communications services will take healthcare to the next stage, and hopefully leave behind the era when we weren’t able to treat illnesses until it was of…
Why Saving The Economy Or Tackling The Pandemic Is A False Dilemma
On the one hand, biology: the clinical effects a virus has on our body, how it spreads, the deaths it causes, or our capacity to generate vaccines. On the other, the economy: a human construct that can be brought under control, stopped when necessary, …
