How artificial intelligence data mining can help us fight COVID-19

While we focus on vaccines, anti-virals and respirators in the fight against COVID-19, there's another type of technology that gets less attention, but may be even more important in lessening the impact of the pandemic--information technology. Given that we've been hearing more and more about the importance of widespread testing, we're probably less surprised at this than we might have been a few weeks ago. It's becoming increasingly clear that knowledge is actually one of the most important tools we have. The good news is that we have people working all the angles on this, from artificial intelligence data mining to genetic sequencing. Why is this so important?