Can Artificial Intelligence Help Deal with Coronavirus?

The outbreak of Coronavirus has become the burning issue, questing emergency attention around the globe. Coronavirus has been declared as a health emergency by WHO (World Health Organization) as it has spread from the Wuhan region (the epicenter of Coronavirus) to different parts of the globe. Now, we have heard countless information about Coronavirus but, let’s give a new aspect to the issue – the concept of artificial intelligence playing a crucial role in helping to monitor Coronavirus spread.

As Coronavirus is disseminating at an overwhelming rate, the contemporary technologies such as AI are used to predict the consequences. The world overlooked the prediction of Coronavirus by a global organization through the means of AI. Recently, the technique of artificial intelligence has been extensively used to predict the plague of major diseases across the world.

A lot of public health officials across the world are using the concept of data science (the data analytic tools) to deal with the outbreak of Coronavirus. Creating a simple model to simulate to counterfeit the spread of such a virus in the city and will help in focusing on the transmission dynamics. Using data science will support the health public authorities to monitor the virus outbreak, predict the spread of the virus to other places, and implementing a detailed planning of the resources.

Artificial intelligence can forecast the count of new cases depending upon the area location and it will also give a prediction on which sect of the audience (population) will be highly affected. AI can help in releasing predictions to warn the people traveling to various affected regions/countries, in an instance of virus/disease outbreak possibilities. These predictions will indicate the travelers to wear masks and take the right precautionary measures.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence can be utilized for analyzing and creating optimal strategies to control and manage the spread of Coronavirus between communities and various cities/regions. Every state or country needs to get the patient details during the outbreak of a virus or disease. Hiring more manpower to deal with such situations will squander your valuable time as well as lead to a slowdown in handling the situation.

Artificial intelligence possesses a significant role in handling Coronavirus. It can forecast the hotspots globally, possibly the areas where the virus can be easily transmitted from animals to humans. If every food market is assigned with specific health codes, it will be easy for the healthcare officials to identify the outbreak of a virus such as Corona. When such an outbreak gets identified, with the measure of AI, the healthcare experts can predict a pattern that shows how the virus will spread and what will be the means of transmission. AI also plays a prominent role in predicting vaccine or treatment conditions by creating a pattern and detecting the viruses that follow a similar pattern.

Coronavirus is accompanied by numerous symptoms including respiratory issues, pneumonia, kidney failure, bronchitis, and so on. Artificial intelligence will develop algorithms that will be beneficial in handling such symptoms. These algorithms will be based on the neural grids, thereby, manage the symptoms when the virus effect depends totally on the structure of the genome. AI or ML can analyze tons of clinical or medical data instantly for establishing a connection to the people that may or may not be a victim of such a deadly virus.

Artificial intelligence will not eliminate the need for epidemiologists rather will predict patterns and possibilities that will guide the experts. AI is emerging to be an effectual tool for monitoring and managing the crisis of the Coronavirus outbreak. AI requires a large data set for acting efficiently and in the present global scenario, there are numerous Coronavirus related data being posted on various social media platforms, thereby, increasing the creation of algorithms for developing real-time information.

Machine learning utilizes the technique of data mining to get the relevant Coronavirus based information, followed by the classification, tagging, and filtering. AI coupled with advancements in machine learning and data analytics is making the prediction process more powerful in the healthcare sector.

We are living in a world where the outburst and spread of an epidemic such as Coronavirus can be predicted by systematized computer programs and AI specialists who are sitting far away from the virus outbreak zone.