Karen DeSalvo : How tech companies can help combat the pandemic and reshape public health

Karen DeSalvo·TED2020
How tech companies can help combat the pandemic and reshape public health
Summary
The story made me think a lot as well.

1, A lot of people couldn’t understand what the important things were to delay the spread of COVID-19 more than testing soon, because it can provide not only scientists critical time to create a vaccine but also seriously ill patients can use beds. In the first place, to test more people had given trouble to workers and scientists, though, people wanted to get the test only by themselves.

2, And then, people were continuing to tell many things about coronavirus by using SNS. It was including true things, though, there is so much information. People didn’t know what to do, people just want to protect themselves and help others, though, the virus is still spreading.

3, People want to find infected people while protecting privacy. They strongly believe that this is the solution. Communism China said that to control privacy was solution and coronavirus was stopped, it was not true though.

4, What is Public health? It aims to improve the quality of life through the prevention and treatment of disease including mental health. The definition is "the science and art of preventing disease”, prolonging life and improving quality of life through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals.

And then, the speaker was appointed by Google as a new chief health officer on October 17, 2019. Is it by chance? Has someone already known about coronavirus spreading since that time? What a great timing it is! The speaker, Karen DeSalvo, is an American business executive, physician, public health expert, and furthermore, a woman.

Billions of people come to Google every day asking for information. This is a tremendous opportunity to have the right information and resources to be able to make good choices. Not only to stop this pandemic but also for improving companies and people’s health, public health and prevention are important. This is this company: "Google" which can continue to do it.