3 ways AI is leading the fight against COVID-19

COVID-19 is particularly dangerous because of the speed with which it spread at a rate too fast for humans to keep up with — but not for Artificial Intelligence. The massive boom in the number of patients during this pandemic has placed tremendous pressure on healthcare professionals and researchers alike. This has created a demand for AI to step in to address these challenges quickly and efficiently.

Development of Drugs and Vaccines

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is helping researchers develop and repurpose existing drugs that can be used as possible COVID-19 treatments. This study aided by Benevolent AI predicted the use of Baricitinib, generally used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, as a treatment against COVID-19.

AI helps accelerate drug discovery — a traditionally slow process — by rapidly making higher-order correlations humans would otherwise have missed, while also sorting through independent information that often escapes network medicine’s scope. This is by far the most promising and widely used application of AI in the fight against COVID-19.

Early Detection and Diagnosis

The use of AI in the detection stage offers higher accuracy, speed, and reach, which means it can lower costs. Behold.ai developed a CE mark approved X-ray diagnosis technology that…