Researchers use artificial intelligence to make coronavirus predictions

NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Columbia University led a team of American and Chinese scientists to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in a new prototype that will predict the severity of lasting effects from COVID-19. The researchers set out to demonstrate the effectiveness of artificial intelligence techniques in predicting which patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, would later develop potentially fatal acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The small-scale study consisted of 53 consecutive patients, 33 men, and 20 women, infected with SARS-CoV-2 who went to Wenzhou Central Hospital or Wuhan Central Hospital for treatment in January 2020. The median age was 43 years old. Mild symptoms at onset included cough, fever, stomach upset, myalgia, wheezing, dyspnea, nasal congestion, and sore throat.