Write about any 5 values you have learnt during this pandemic. Illustrate it through pictures and write 2-3 sentences about each value, how it has helped you in becoming a better person.
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Explanation:
1. Speed and trust. Too clearly, we learned how much we need an early warning system for future crises, whether from climate change or pandemics. Future global crises may not just come from disease – which is why a warning system like the World Health Organization's proposed Epi-Brain offers a comprehensive model. Having a system we can trust is critical: only through trust will citizens act as they did to self-isolate. In truth, we acted together by staying apart.
2. Broadband access to the internet. As tele-health illustrated, digital access is now like oxygen. For years, our social workers have been advising cancer patients on how to access their own health data and treatment plans online. Now all our patients who have financial difficulties are in need of that advice. Students throughout the world could not access online learning tools without broadband. The Forum’s work on emergency spectrum access has been critical. Digital access must be seen as a utility, like electricity and plumbing.
3. Medical surge capacity. COVID-19 showed us, as did the refugee crisis, that the globe lacks the ability to assemble a powerful intensive care capacity. This is now a clear challenge for world leaders.
4. Health assurance. COVID-19 proved that the “Internet of You” can support a new era of health assurance. I call it “healthcare with no address”, where sophisticated medicine can be delivered to people at home. People want to live happy and productive lives without healthcare getting in the way. We now know we can do that. In many countries, notably India, this is the future. As futurist Vinod Khosla observed, it would take an infinite amount of money to provide traditional hospital support to every person on the globe. Instead, it must be done with digital health.
5. Ethics and equity. The promise of digital medicine is the promise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where the tools of artificial intelligence transform all professions. At the same time, healthcare is the ultimate argument for the difficult lesson: that the digital future cannot simply make the wealthy healthier. Digital medicine gives us an unparalleled opportunity to address the social determinants of health and provide access to everyone in their own neighbourhoods.