How Moderna uses cloud and data wrangling to conquer COVID-19

"Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. That's a bold statement by Will Douglas Heaven, senior editor for AI at MIT Technology Review, and is quite likely correct. Despite dozens upon dozens of machine learning algorithms designed to diagnose patients or predict just how sick COVID-19 might make them, two independent reviews published in the British Medical Journal and Nature came to the same conclusion: none of them worked. But let's not write off artificial intelligence's impact on COVID-19 too soon. Though most ML algorithms failed, there's one area where they succeeded and succeeded big. Data scientists at Moderna managed to pull off a modern-day miracle using cloud infrastructure and machine learning, as recounted by Moderna chief data and AI officer Dave Johnson. Why did Moderna succeed while many other efforts failed? Given how fast medical researchers hastened to respond to the COVID-19 threat, it's understandable why so many data science projects failed.