AI applications in the fight against COVID-19 - Secerna LLP News

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic had spread across the globe, Artificial Intelligence (AI) had already begun to redraw the landscape of medical science. Indeed, the remarkable predictive power of AI has seen it take centre stage in the unprecedented fight against COVID-19. In this, the second of our articles relating to COVID-19, we look at innovation in the COVID-19 crisis focusing on this use of AI. AI is now being employed in a multitude of applications in relation to the pandemic, including vaccine development, patient diagnosis, and tracking real time transmission of COVID in the community.It is being used to predict how the virus may spread during lockdown easing and even predict wider behavioural patterns, such as panic buying. Unsurprisingly, AI platforms are being widely applied to the identification of COVID-19 therapeutics. The novel coronavirus has demanded a re-examination of our therapeutic toolbox for drugs that may be repurposed to treat the infection.