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  • STAT's guide to how hospitals are using AI to fight Covid-19

    Casey Ross Rebecca Robbins Erin Brodwin

    March 31, 2020 |

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    A variety of AI tools are being used by the healthcare industry to try to identify cases of coronavirus. Although it's not yet clear which will be most successful in doing so, tools such as automated chatboxes, algorithms to identify at-risk people, and the use of modeling and projections are all being piloted to help aid hospitals, clinicians, and patients.

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  • Can location data from smartphones help slow the coronavirus? Facebook is giving academics a chance to try

    Rebecca Robbins

    March 24, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Facebook collects data from people that choose to share their location with the app, and have started sharing it with various researchers who are trying to track the spread of the novel coronavirus. They share the data anonymously, so as to avoid the privacy issues they’ve faced in the past, and researchers aggregate “the signals into a picture of flows of people” to track connectivity and movement. Beyond researchers, nonprofits are also using it to help disseminate medical resources to highly affected areas.

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