Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19

Massive supply chain shocks

Because of this, in the future, we might see things like:

Second-order effects of THE COVID-19 outbreak:

COVID-19 may lead to:

Better telemedicine systems

Faster clinical trials for drugs and vaccines

More prevalent hospital medical delivery robots

Better at-home testing/diagnostic methods

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

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