Like many other industries, tech has stepped up to support Covid-19 response efforts. However, a resilient health system is defined as one that can maintain core function when a crisis hits; all these projects are reactionary. They are not the elegant, scalable solutions that most technologists would otherwise create if they had the opportunity to design from first principles. This outbreak has laid bare the dire need to rebuild our system in a way that not only suppresses a future pandemic but also functions normally while doing so. In taking on the challenge of building a system that is already struggling, technologists must rethink many of their assumptions of how to build and grow exceptional products.
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Pandemics, once considered black swan events, will become a routine occurrence in this era. Globalization, localization, and increased animal protein consumption have changed our world such that localized infections now have the potential to evolve into global pandemics with greater frequency.
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