Blockchain with Corona Virus: Moving Together to Prevent Future Pandemics

ABSTRACT

Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which is a severe acute respiratory syndrome, is spreading rapidly all over the world. This disease has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). The death toll has been increasing due to COVID-19. Global effort is needed to stop the spread of the virus and decrease the death rate. Technically, the death toll is because of improper data management and information sharing. The traditional database system has limitations on tampering with data and collective control systems, especially when data is shared with others. To overcome this problem, “blockchain” technology can be used. It is a distributed ledger technology that acts as a shared database by keeping all the copies verified and synced. This article focuses on blockchain technology and how future pandemics can be prevented using this concept. Blockchain technology can help in preventing pandemics and tracking drug trials, early detection of epidemics, and management of outbreaks and treatment. The containment of outbreaks becomes manageable with easy access to data. It will also be helpful to health authorities. In this chapter, a model is proposed that uses blockchain where each block contains information regarding Covid patients so it becomes easier to track and get the count of infected patients, and data will be secure and can be used for future analysis. © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Vineet Kansal, Raju Ranjan, Sapna Sinha, Rajdev Tiwari, and Nilmini Wickramasinghe;individual chapters, the contributors.