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How COVID-19 transformed the future of medicine

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The pandemic forced the world to work together like never before and, with unprecedented speed, bore a new age of health and medical innovation. Physician-scientist Daniel Kraft explains how breakthroughs and advancements like AI-infused antiviral discoveries and laboratory-level diagnostic tools accessible via smartphones are paving the way for a more democratized, connected and data-driven future of medicine and personalized care.

The pandemic forced the world to work together like never before and, with unprecedented speed, bore a new age of health and medical innovation. Physician-scientist Daniel Kraft explains how breakthroughs and advancements like AI-infused antiviral discoveries and laboratory-level diagnostic tools accessible via smartphones are paving the way for a more democratized, connected and data-driven future of medicine and personalized care.

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Daniel Kraft

Physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxMarin, an independent event. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Read more about TEDx.

Learn more from a diverse array of innovators leveraging emerging technologies to reshape health and biomedicine.

Share your health and medicine challenges and solutions. What healthcare challenges do you see, and what emerging, novel solutions are you or colleagues developing?