A Message For Medtechs: Adapt For the Future While You Can

With the World Health Organization pressing for an inquiry into the coronavirus pandemic, it is clear that lessons must be learned for how future global public health emergencies must be handled. Medical technology has played a key role in halting the speed of the pandemic, but why has it taken an episode like COVID-19 for medtech’s true value to be recognized? ZS principal Brian Chapman says things must never go back to where they were.

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When the recriminations are over, and scientists know the chain of events that led to 5 million COVID-19 infections and 328,000 deaths in the first 20 weeks of 2020, lessons for future pandemics must be learned. They are lessons in how to cope with global public health emergencies, and in how health systems must adjust and stand in readiness for unexpected demands on their capacity to diagnose and treat.

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