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The top emerging health technologies to end this pandemic and avert the next one

This undated transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, also known as novel coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses their name, crown-like.  NIAID-RML/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT - RC25NF9B3EFR

Virtual patients, vaccines, medicine-making biomachines and microneedles - to name a few. Image: via REUTERS

Bernard Meyerson
Chief Innovation Officer, IBM
Mariette DiChristina
Dean, College of Communication, Boston University
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