Faster clinical trials for drugs and vaccines

Better telemedicine systems

More prevalent hospital medical delivery robots

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

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

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

Massive supply chain shocks

Second-order effects of THE COVID-19 outbreak:

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