What Can COVID-19 Teach Us about Using AI in Pandemics?

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The New Group Organizational Consulting Inc., Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.

Published: December 2020


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The COVID-19 pandemic put significant strain on societies and their resources, with the healthcare system and workers being particularly affected. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers the unique possibility of improving the response to a pandemic as it emerges and evolves. Here, we utilize the WHO framework of a pandemic evolution to analyze the various AI applications. Specifically, we analyzed AI from the perspective of all five domains of the WHO pandemic response. To effectively review the current scattered literature, we organized a sample of relevant literature from various professional and popular resources. The article concludes with a consideration of AI's weaknesses as key factors affecting AI in future pandemic preparedness and response.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7711608PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8040527DOI Listing

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