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Adaptations and Lessons from COVID-19: A Perspective on How some Industries will be Impacted

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Adaptations and Lessons from COVID-19: A Perspective on How some Industries will be Impacted

Adaptations and Lessons from COVID-19 - Clusters of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The disease quickly propagated in China and abroad, with the Word Health Organization (WHO) declaring a ‘Public Health Emergency’ and ‘Global Pandemic’ by January and March 2020, respectively. At present, the underlying virus (SARS-CoV-2)  has spread to over 200 countries where it has affected a minimum 6 million people of which approximately 330,000 have died as a result. The potential for this severe (and potentially lethal) illness, in combination with high ease of transmission makes the virus highly dangerous and clinically burdensome. This has necessitated use of quarantine, social distancing, isolation and other broad-sweeping restrictive measures to limit viral spread. These measures have helped certain high-performing health systems adapt to the pressures of COVID-19 but even still, some have buckled. Moreover, these measures have had undeniable, far-reaching consequences for industries and sectors quite diverse from the virus itself. This speaks to a major underlying struggle in the management of the pandemic which in many ways, pits health risks against economic costs. 

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