COVID-19 AND THE FUTURE

In early January of 2020, the first rumors of a pneumonia-like disease in Wuhan, China had begun to fall on foreign ears. At the time, they were only rumors. By mid-March, the world had stopped, waiting with bated breath, as the COVID-19 pandemic upended the status-quo. Everything was in freefall, suspended in uncertainty.

Economies halted. Unemployment skyrocketed. Isolation abounded. With burgeoning infections around the world, health workers stood on the frontline to combat perhaps the most dangerous of adversaries: an invisible virus.

When faced with a highly infectious disease like COVID-19, doctors, nurses, and frontline responders must take all precautions to avoid exposure—if they aren’t safe, who is?

Many expect a return to “normality” once the pandemic has abated, but some epidemiologists predict the world we knew will remain in the past. Who knows? It’s all speculation.

Who would have expected on New Year’s Eve that 2020, the start of a new decade, would be tarnished by a relentless pandemic? Not me.

Our globalized society is especially vulnerable to the mass diffusion of infectious diseases with its web of intercontinental flights, cargo shipments traversing oceans, etc.

Even further, we have learned the need to prepare for another situation like COVID, one that would perhaps be more vicious.

Interlokit’s ConcealSmart™ accessories for wearable technology will be crucial in another outbreak; they will provide enhanced convenience for consumers to stay informed at all times, streamlining contact tracing efforts, making the information both more abundant and accurate.

Allowing doctors and health professionals secure access to one’s vitals will help health professionals keep check on the severity of one’s symptoms, whether or not they have tested positive for the pathogen.

With this type of technology in play during another health crisis, professionals could maintain safe hospital capacities, prioritizing those with severer cases.

With this type of technology, health professionals, from the CDC to the WHO, from doctors to nurses, could garner a better understanding of their hidden adversary, could rapidly enumerate and share more conclusive data.

With this type of technology in the hands of doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, we can keep our medical responders safe. We can reduce their exposure by empowering them with their own handsfree technology.