Your New Life In 2021 (Mid-Post COVID)

At the beginning of the pandemic, we wrote a lot about how the pandemic should and could be handled. In addition to providing real-world advice on what technology can do to support us (like Digital Health Apps To Use During Quarantine or The State of A.I. in the Fight Against COVID-19), we often provided forecasts (When And How Will COVID End?) and predictions about the management and the potential outcome of the epidemic (Will There Be A Second Wave). We even created an entire handbook to give away for free! After drawing attention to the privacy and data protection issues raised by the pandemic (we issued a guide for the connoisseurs!), we debunked conspiracy theories and raised questions about the future of immunity passports (notably, the decision is still not out on this one).  But, most importantly, we tried to ring the bell repeatedly about the importance of listening to science instead of goofy self-made heroes of the day, or, as a matter of fact, politicians.  Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Our most important benchmark, really, is if COVID-19 will ever end, and if we will live our lives in normalcy in the near future. Will future generations refer to these years as we refer today to the times of the Spanish Flu? Will we all be immunised in a global effort like we are against polio and get over the virus or will it live with us forever? But simply because foresight is “not about predicting the future, it’s about minimising surprise” (...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Covid-19 Forecast 3D Printing science telemedicine vaccination contact tracing cdc pfizer mask mRNA J&J herd immunity Uğur Şahin Karl Schroeder Source Type: blogs