The digital health revolution may be our best hope for containing infectious disease.
Last Monday, I offered a dark scenario to start off your workweek: the prospect of a highly pathogenic zoonotic virus spreading feverishly around the globe—or, as I should have titled the column: “Hi, everyone. How was your weekend?”
Today, I am determined to keep things upbeat—so again, let's discuss the ongoing threat of pandemic. But this time, here's a far more hopeful spin: It may well be that the oldest threat to humankind—the spread of infection—is the one where the newest digital health technology can have the greatest impact.
