The pandemic is providing a stage for demonstrating what genome sequencing can do for infectious diseases like COVID-19 as well as other conditions like cancer.  When it comes to public health, genetic sequencing isn’t as routine a part of disease management as it should be. The pandemic has brought us into the 21^st century, into the era of biology and the era of the genome.  But many parts of the world don’t have such resources to purchase Illumina machines,—not to mention to analyze and interpret the results.