Free Phone App To Be Available Soon For Faster Detection of COVID-19

Researchers at the Medical College of Georgia have been working to develop an AI-based framework using a Phone-based survey to reduce the time to identification of a person under investigation (PUI) for the COVID-19 infection as well as the rapid isolation of this individual. The World Health Organization's situational data indicates that there were more than 70 thousand confirmed cases with more than 2000 death rates. The researchers are trying to mitigate such issues by quick detection through the phone-based app without spending much of the available medical resources. They are using machine learning algorithms in a mobile phone-based web survey to improve possible case identifications of COVID-19 in a faster manner to bring timely interventions. The researchers hope that this app will help reduce the spread of the pandemic in the susceptible population.