Council Post: Privacy In A Time Of Pandemic: Artificial Intelligence To Protect Patients

Since March, several celebrities, including Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Idris Elba, sports figures and members of Congress have announced that they were infected with COVID-19. Hanks and Elba framed their Instagram posts with public health messages to urge others to self-quarantine and heed public health warnings about social isolation. Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert included a dose of remorse for having challenged the severity of the risk when he contracted the virus after grabbing mics from the press pool, infecting several teammates. The point in repeating these stories is that in each case, a well-known person chose to reveal his or her health status. In recent years, many celebrities have taken this route, from Angelina Jolie with breast cancer treatment to Justin Bieber with Lyme disease.