The most prevalent model this period is "risk mitigation." The world shut down because of the adverse mass infection risk of a virus overwhelming healthcare systems. What we may have missed is that we never saw healthcare systems as major risk mitigation institutions in the past.
We spent fortunes on the military and law enforcement to keep order internally and prevent external threats but healthcare was only seen as a secondary risk mitigant as most epidemics were usually contained quickly and not a threat on a level as we are currently witnessing.
If you understand virology, you'll realize that a virus is neither living or dead. We can't eliminate them completely and the threat will linger. That means mitigants will have to be strengthened. The new arms race is going to be about better healthcare systems helping economies.
While we are all looking at sudden changes in the mode of delivery of basic education, nobody is looking at how healthcare education will change dramatically this period. We need armies of doctors and paramedics. Churning them out rapidly with the right standard will be paramount
Any country that wants to have great healthcare tomorrow will start strengthening the foundations of medical training today. Science has made a comeback in a massive way.
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