Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19

Imagine a next-generation TSA system which needs your biological information before you hop on a flight or enter a country

Better at-home testing/diagnostic methods

Massive supply chain shocks

COVID-19 may lead to:

Second-order effects of THE COVID-19 outbreak:

This could be as much as an accelerant for biomedicine as the internet was for software

Just like you have to make sure no one’s bringing guns or bombs on a plane that could kill hundreds, we need to make sure people aren’t bringing a deadly virus into a country that could kill thousands

Home sequencers hooked up to your plumbing (you’d be able to pee/poop and see if you have the virus)

People will begin to view remote work not as an auxiliary, but as a primary. EVERY job going forward must be remote-capable.

Faster clinical trials for drugs and vaccines