The company also ensures that phone calls are not answered by a system, but by a real human being every time.

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But it's difficult to envision deploying tens of millions of health workers for a single disease each time, especially since the Indian health system faces crippling health human resource shortages.

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"It is time for America to take the next steps... and extend a human presence across our Solar System, " he said.

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