As the number of COVID-19 infections are again spiking around the U.S., health care workers struggling to stay ahead have a tool with a novel approach to add to their arsenal in COVID-Net, an open source AI-based platform that uses radiological lung images to determine COVID-19-specific lung damage, as well as assess the degree of that damage. The technology was developed in March, during the early days of the pandemic, but has been gaining more notice as an example of artificial intelligence in health care as more organizations have adopted it. Although the nonprofit project is being led by Red Hat, Boston Children's Hospital and DarwinAI (a 3-year-old proprietary artificial intelligence startup headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario), it began as a collaboration between Canada's University of Waterloo and DarwinAI. "COVID-Net was an initiative to try to contribute to the whirlwind of the pandemic in March," DarwinAI CEO Sheldon Fernandez told ITPro Today. "We open sourced it and we didn't want it to be commercial.