Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19

Second-order effects of THE COVID-19 outbreak:

Better at-home testing/diagnostic methods

Faster clinical trials for drugs and vaccines

Home sequencers hooked up to your plumbing (you’d be able to pee/poop and see if you have the virus)

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

More prevalent hospital medical delivery robots

Imagine a next-generation TSA system which needs your biological information before you hop on a flight or enter a country

Massive supply chain shocks

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