Blockchain can help fighting corona

[sureshverma]

I was sure that a way to fight the coronavirus using blockchain would be found and this happened

[turkandjaydee]

There were many people that were cured from the virus,but got infected again.

This is very interesting. Is this valid information? Could you please provide the information source?

I also don't know about this, but I also read that it's not about reinfection but its because the patient hasn't even recovered yet. And for test accuracy problem, is it because of a human error, no?

So for OP, this idea is not possible to happen in the near future because even from the medical side there are still many problems and not to mention the other things that have been mentioned before.

But that's very creative thinking tho.

[maxreish]

Correct me if i got your point wrong or not. Does this mean it will gonna determine conveniently the contact tracing? The root of the covid will be trace then?
 I somehow like your idea about that id with keys. But with this current situation we are facing it is hard to develop and implement it now. Are we just gonna give ids to those PUI, PUM and COVID POSITIVE only?

[Tolosi]

Today Germany reported that 100.000 people that were infected are healthy now. Most probably they are immune at least for a period of time. Those people should be allowed to move freely and go to work work. Those people can be very important in returning to normality because they can do many things that still non infected can not safely do now. I think some sort of written statement from a medical institution should be issued to those people. This statement must have high level of integrity and be easily confirmed. There I see the role for purpose developed block chain type global computer network. It is not good for contact tracing as I see it.

When we had the deadly variola epidemic long time ago, we were all vaccinated quickly and the spread of the infection stopped. But for months after that on every trip outside town, on every flight I had show a little booklet with data of may vaccination and a photo ID. I think the same will be required in this situation but this time rt will be an electronic verifiable record. Block chain technology would be ideal for this.
And it would help bitcoin get wider acceptance too. Imagine headlines like "Bitcoin based technology helps save the world  from corona virus pandemic".

[dersu1995]

The coronavirus crisis could still hand the world’s most volatile currency the upper hand in a global recession. In the aftermath of the World Health Organisation’s decision to officially declare Covid-19 a pandemic few month ago, pretty much every asset in the world fell in value, even supposed safe haven assets such as gold and bitcoin. While gold has since recovered and reached levels not seen since 2012, the so-called “digital gold” is still down more than 30 per cent from the year-to-date highs made back in February.

[Debonaire217]

It should be real-time because in any point in time, people could acquire the virus and it is too hard to detect it already since you need to undergo tests and wait for the result. With the application of blockchain technology, maybe what we can improve is the monitoring of active coronavirus cases that could not be changed and is good for transparency. Though, there are countries that don't want to disclose the actual number the infections, how could we implement blockchain monitoring if the test kits availability isn't enough.

[Lorence.xD]

It should be real-time because in any point in time, people could acquire the virus and it is too hard to detect it already since you need to undergo tests and wait for the result. With the application of blockchain technology, maybe what we can improve is the monitoring of active coronavirus cases that could not be changed and is good for transparency. Though, there are countries that don't want to disclose the actual number the infections, how could we implement blockchain monitoring if the test kits availability isn't enough.

I think the technology is viable for monitoring but in my opinion using block chain is useless because what we need is contact tracing not monitoring, quarantine does the work though the quality varies per country, I do not think now is the time that we should use block chain for those things and such.

[gokumarket]

It seems interesting and in any other way, blockchain will defiantly turn savior in security majors. As Blockchain can hold the data securely and technology is viable for monitoring the real-time result, it can be one of the options and if it will get collaborated with the AI it can help to show the real-time test results for the individual and can be tracked globally. 

[JohnAndersen]

Interesting thoughts, i agree with some of it, lets see how it goes