Even as COVID case numbers begin to level and drop across much of the US, epidemiologists, statisticians, and health care providers are already examining the lessons learned to begin preparing for the next pandemic.
“In the last 20 years, we've had six significant threats—SARS, MERS, Ebola, avian influenza, and swine flu," Professor Matthew Baylis from the University of Liverpool told BBC News. "We dodged five bullets, but the sixth got us. And this is not the last pandemic we are going to face."
So how are scientists and health care providers confronting this inevitability? One New York health care provider has an answer to the question of where to start.
In this video, presented by renowned innovation hub Big Think, Northwell Health president and CEO Michael Dowling shares the strategies behind the groundbreaking effort to try to get ahead of the next pandemic. By collecting, interpreting, and utilizing vast amounts of health data through their elaborate data collection system, Northwell hopes to better care for patients by quickly identifying and managing COVID-19 surges now.
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"I believe very, very strongly that we should have been, and should be now, working with other countries...to figure out how to develop a surveillance system...because we will have another pandemic."
The system has ramifications for the future too, as Dowling explains. If we can learn from the past and enough healthcare providers adopt data collection systems, Dowling believes future pandemics can be mitigated before they begin.
“Where we were very lacking as a country was in surveillance,” says Dowling. “I believe very, very strongly that we should have been, and should be now, working with other countries, including China, the EU, England, and others, to figure out how to develop a surveillance system so you can anticipate way in advance when these things are going to occur, because we will have another pandemic.”
Big Think hosts the biggest ideas from the world’s leading thinkers. Watch Michael Dowling’s featured video and learn the ins and outs of what made Northwell’s COVID response so effective and what we can do in the future to safeguard ourselves against the next pandemic.
Even as COVID case numbers begin to level and drop across much of the US, epidemiologists, statisticians, and health care providers are already examining the lessons learned to begin preparing for the next pandemic.
“In the last 20 years, we've had six significant threats—SARS, MERS, Ebola, avian influenza, and swine flu," Professor Matthew Baylis from the University of Liverpool told BBC News. "We dodged five bullets, but the sixth got us. And this is not the last pandemic we are going to face."
So how are scientists and health care providers confronting this inevitability? One New York health care provider has an answer to the question of where to start.
In this video, presented by renowned innovation hub Big Think, Northwell Health president and CEO Michael Dowling shares the strategies behind the groundbreaking effort to try to get ahead of the next pandemic. By collecting, interpreting, and utilizing vast amounts of health data through their elaborate data collection system, Northwell hopes to better care for patients by quickly identifying and managing COVID-19 surges now.