The current Coronavirus situation has brought the focus back to viruses that have gone unnoticed for years because they are so rare in humans. This is why it is imperative that more countries become involved in research on new vaccines for infectious diseases before they spread further across continents and lead to a pandemic. This article will explore how different governments respond to this global crisis by providing insight into investing in digital technology to fight future pandemics.

The global community is working together to try and find ways to stop the spread of covid-19 and its mutations. As we progress with vaccinations, offering small immunisation levels from the original virus, newer variants with more significant mutations pose substantial health risks. The World Health Organization (WHO) has followed the situation closely and named a new variant known as Omicron. 

The world is now working together to fight future pandemics as Covid-19 continues to spread quickly through the world because it favours dense human populations. The UK is working with different countries around the world to see if they want access to their vaccine research and technology because it could potentially help them save their own countries from a deadly virus outbreak.

All it takes is one undetected virus to spread through a community and begin an epidemic that could spread globally. This is why the world must continue to invest in digital technology to fight future pandemics because these types of infections can transfer quickly from animals to humans and then become global threats.

How can technology help to fight future pandemics?

The digital technologies currently available, such as AI enabled smartphones, can all offer opportunities to improve medical research and treatment of infectious diseases. For instance, the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa could have been prevented if doctors and healthcare workers had real-time access to patient data and research on vaccines for Ebola.

Medical professionals need quick access to patient data because it allows them to better understand different treatments for infectious diseases before they ultimately spread throughout a local area. Armed with more information about how people responded differently to treatment, they could then tailor their own treatments based on what they learned from other people who had survived Ebola.

Because the internet is becoming more and more popular all over the world, especially in African countries, there are now massive quantities of data about infectious diseases that are available online. This means that healthcare researchers can analyse large amounts of data to identify common patterns across many infected populations. It also gives healthcare workers faster access to information about how to treat people with different infections.

Online health communities, where people share their experiences with illness, can also help doctors improve patient care by helping them understand how other treatments for an infection worked for patients who had already gone through treatment. In addition, with other doctors worldwide contributing to these online discussion forums, they can all collectively learn more about treatments for dangerous infectious diseases like SARS and AIDS.

Pharmaceutical companies can also use digital technologies to contribute to research on vaccines for infectious diseases. For example, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has teamed up with international pharmaceutical companies to develop new vaccines that are safer, cheaper, and more effective. While many pharmaceutical companies are working on creating vaccinations for viruses that cause small, localised outbreaks around the world, the big pharma companies are focusing their attention on vaccines for viruses that are more likely to spread in an epidemic.

By looking at the data collected in different countries about how people responded when given different treatments or vaccines against infectious diseases like Ebola, they will be able to work out which treatment options are best for particular geographical areas.

Looking at innovative ways to mass-produce vaccines that are easy to deliver worldwide is a crucial component to fighting future pandemics. One idea being explored is using genetic engineering techniques to eliminate viral proteins that can cause people to get sick by giving them the vaccine. This allows healthcare workers to safely provide this vaccine even if there are still some viruses in it.

Another method for creating new vaccines on a global scale involves using human cells to grow actual viruses on cell lines, which is the same technology used in the pharmaceutical industry. This technique allows pharmaceutical companies to create large amounts of vaccines more cheaply and faster than traditional manufacturing methods, which would enable them to bring new vaccines on the market much quicker than before.

Fighting future pandemics will require a global network of digital technologies and data-collection devices to collect and share information about treating and preventing infections. In addition, these technologies and data-collection devices will need to be able to communicate with each other so that people in remote areas can also benefit from the knowledge gained in the developed world. The success of this digital technology could even help reduce the financial burden on developing countries when they experience a pandemic because this technology will allow them to do more testing on human populations.