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The impact of COVID-19 on sustainable development

Digital technologies have helped in pandemic planning, surveillance, testing, contact tracing, quarantine, and health care. In some developed countries, technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, real-time data from smartphones and wearable technologies (ie, smartwatches), thermal cameras, mobile phone applications, and web-based toolkits have been used for tracking, screening for infection, and contact tracing. Digital technologies have also helped diagnose patients with severe symptoms of COVID-19. This is mostly seen in radiological diagnostics, where artificial intelligence and machine learning can differentiate COVID-19 from other lung diseases on CT scans and x-ray images, or in predicting the development of more severe forms of the disease. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the production and delivery of treatments and suspended research and the clinical development of various therapeutic options that are crucial for the gene and cell therapy. The pharmaceutical industry, along with other key economic sectors, was severely disrupted during the COVID19 pandemic as a result of investment in vaccines and the development of drugs against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the previous fragility of our health care systems, which generally were unprepared for such a ferocious outbreak. However, it has also demonstrated the importance of biotechnology and digital technology in responding to the major challenge of a global pandemic. Thanks to previous developments in both fields, work, education, and daily living mostly managed to survive this pandemic and showed how important previous research was in providing the necessary tools, such as rapid diagnostic testing and vaccine development as well as remote video communication. In all three cases, the newly developed technologies promise that future responses to pandemics will likely be much more impactful than they had been previously.

COVID-19 ; technology ; cell therapy ; gene therapy

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