AI Employed to Track Spread of Coronavirus and Seek a Vaccine - AI Trends

The coronavirus was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization on January 30. AI is being employed extensively to track the spread of the new deadly virus, for now dubbed the 2019-novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Receiving fair attention as a result is BlueDot, a venture-backed startup that has built an AI platform to process billions of pieces of data, such as from world air travel, to identify outbreaks. BlueDot issued its first alert on Dec. 31, ahead of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which issued its own warning on Jan. 6, according to an account in Forbes. BlueDot was founded by Kamran Khan, an infectious disease physician and professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto.