Eight ways in which data science is helping in the fight against COVID19

Given the scale of its impact and the kind of alteration that it brought into our lives, COVID19 is one of the most unprecedented crises of our times. Although it is not the only pandemic that humanity has been through, COVID19 is occurring in the time of the fourth industrial revolution where everyone and everything is one click way, and where the excess of data and computing has allowed machines to be more intelligent than ever. In the age of deep tech and data, data science is definitely at the core of how we are facing the pandemic and paving the way for a new normal. This article provides a non-exhaustive list of use cases in which data science has been leveraged to provide emergency response during COVID and facilitate post-COVID recovery. Collecting and analyzing medical data dating from the early stages of the virus allowed understanding what the virus is all about.