nature
Face masks: what the data say
12+ min · · The science supports that face coverings save lives, and yet the debate trundles on. How much evidence is enough? · Shared by 450, including Frank Luntz, Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🥼🤹🦟🧀, Amy Cuddy, PhD, Follow me on Bluesky or Mastodon (see below), TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA, Gregg Gonsalves, George J Huba PhD, TVMoJoe, David Leonhardt, Carlos del Rio, Gabriel Leung, Mathieu von Rohr, Dr. Alec Couros, davidabrock, Steven Sinofsky, Megan Ranney MD MPH 🌻, Esther Choo, MD MPH, Eric Topol, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Harvard Business Review
How Hospitals Are Using AI to Battle Covid-19
6 min · · Overwhelmed and under-equipped, some health centers are innovating in the midst of the global pandemic. · Shared by 74, including Carla Johnson - Keynote Speaker, Charles Duhigg, Tamara McCleary, Ronald van Loon, Ronald Schmelzer, Kathleen Walch, Berci Meskó, MD, PhD, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Forbes
9 Future Predictions For A Post-Coronavirus World
4 min · · Our world is changing dramatically as our global community deals with COVID-19. While the experience is far from easy, it’s building resilience and extending our minds to see new possibilities. · Shared by 162, including Thomas Power, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Gerd Leonhard, Nige Roberts-Willson, Bob E. Hayes, Bernard Marr
Futurism
China opened an entire hospital staffed by robots
1 min · · Shared by 25, including Carl Robinson 🎙️, Glen Gilmore #MWC23
catalix.net
Catalix by Devoteam, des formations à l'intelligence artificielle pour les professionnels
5 min · · Face à l’urgence de crise liée au Covid-19, des algorithmes d’intelligence artificielle sont de plus en plus développés dans le monde.
FiveThirtyEight
Why It’s So Freaking Hard To Make A Good COVID-19 Model
12+ min · · Here we are, in the middle of a pandemic, staring out our living room windows like aquarium fish. The question on everybody’s minds: How bad will this really ge… · Shared by 311, including Kirk Borne, Ed Yong has left The Atlantic, Martin Fowler, Marie-José Kolly, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Julia Wolfe, Mike Tamir, PhD, Amesh Adalja, Damian Gryski, Anne Thompson, Kainaz Amaria, Carly, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Ella Koeze, Ken Norton, Rachael Dottle, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Jennifer Ouellette, Bethany Brookshire, Oliver Roeder
ZDNET
Can AI predict global pandemics like the coronavirus?
2 min · · If you want to use ML to predict sparse events, then you are going to need a lot sparser events. Maybe we don't have the direct data to predict the big events like the coronavirus outbreak, but we are… · Shared by 47, including Ronald Schmelzer, Bob E. Hayes, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, USC ICT, Nige Roberts-Willson, Kathleen Walch
The Verge
A new COVID-19 test can return results in 5 minutes
2 min · · Samples don’t have to spend days waiting in a lab · Shared by 18, including Brandon Uttley, Michael (मुकेश), Ward Plunet
Fast Company
How we can redesign cities to fight future pandemics
6 min · · “Buildings have to be the secret weapon in the future to combat infectious diseases.” · Shared by 228, including Shawn Venasse, AIA National, Liliane Ferrari ™, Philanthropy News Digest, Thomas Power, Katja Evertz, Gutly Myrat, Stephan Woodtli, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Tauno, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Elemental
This Is How Your Immune System Reacts to Coronavirus
8 min · · And what it means for treatment · Shared by 40, including 瑞拿頭, Simon Ng, Tamara Dull, Bethany Brookshire, Coronado 'Porch' Lindzon, Andrei Luca
Forrester
Can AI Predict Global Pandemics Like The Coronavirus?
2 min · · If you want to use ML to predict sparse events, then you are going to need a whole lot more sparse events. Maybe we don’t have the direct data to predict the big events like the coronavirus outbreak,… · Shared by 8, including Lisa Gualtieri
OneZero
The World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Has Entered the Fight Against Coronavirus
5 min · · The IBM-built Summit has found a list of promising drugs for Covid-19 · Shared by 24, including John Nosta, Undark Magazine
Les Echos
Coronavirus : les start-up mobilisées pour soulager les hôpitaux
2 min · · Une plateforme d'entraide aux hôpitaux devrait être opérationnelle la semaine prochaine, à l'initiative de la Fédération hospitalière de... · Shared by 5, including Xavier Bertschy
Mapbox
7 best practices for mapping a pandemic
13+ min · · And the common pitfalls to avoid · Shared by 7
talend.com
How Data Is Transforming the Fight Against Pandemics
3 min · · We are always struggling to keep up against the curve of infection. The faster we understand the virus, the faster we can treat patients and develop vaccinnes.
medium.com
Open Source Ventilator Projects: Status, Challenges, How You Can Help
3 min · · At this moment, there are thousands of intelligent, diligent, well-meaning engineers trying to help the design of open source ventilators to address a possibly imminent life-threatening shortage… · Shared by 9, including David Smooke, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr