“The key to preparing ourselves for the next pandemic will really be to—without having to completely overhaul our healthcare system—figure out ways that we can be better coordinate next time,” says Soren Germer, PhD, Senior Vice President, Genome Technologies at the New York Genome Center.
Dr.Germer was featured in the article “Why Genomic Sequencing Is Important for the Next Stage of the Pandemic” published on April 5 in Verywell Health, a consumer website with 7 million unique visitors monthly. The article includes his perspective on the importance of a more integrated health system and how investing in personalized genomics medicine can better prepare the world for the next pandemic.