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Why You Should Never Use Microsoft Excel To Count Coronavirus Cases

Public Health England has admitted that 16,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK were missed from daily figures being reported between September 25 and October 2. The missing figures were subsequently added to the daily totals, but given the importance of these numbers for monitoring the outbreak and making key decisions, the results of the error are far-reaching. Not only does it lead to underestimating the scale of coronavirus in the UK, but perhaps more important is the subsequent delay in entering the details of positive cases into the NHS Test and Trace system which is used by a team…

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Tech

Adaptive Biotechnologies And Microsoft Launch Virtual ImmuneRACE Study To Inform Novel COVID-19 Diagnostics To Address Unmet Needs In Testing

Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. announced it has begun enrolling a virtual clinical study, ImmuneRACE, as part of a broader effort it has undertaken with Microsoft Corp. to rapidly map and measure the immune response to the COVID-19 virus to inform improved diagnostics to fulfill the need for more reliable testing. The study calls for 1,000 participants in select U.S. metropolitan areas impacted by COVID-19. De-identified data will be made freely available to public health officials, academia and industry to help accelerate solutions to the pandemic. LabCorp (NYSE: LH), through its Covance drug development business, will manage the collection of blood samples and…

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Contribute To Open Source Healthcare Projects For COVID-19

Many of those that are familiar with the maker movement, including me, believe there is a significant opportunity to apply open source design principles and mass-scale collaborative distributed manufacturing technologies (like open source 3D printing) to at least partially overcome medical supply shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Already, an Italian hospital saved COVID-19 patients’ lives by 3D printing valves for reanimation devices. However, those designs were not open source, and hospitals still need to file paperwork to get to the STLs, needlessly wasting time, restricting the number of volunteers that could print the valves, and perhaps leading to unnecessary deaths. Far…

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Platforms

How Google Cloud Is Helping COVID-19 Academic Research

As COVID-19 continues to grow in impact, healthcare and life science researchers are in a race to understand more about the novel coronavirus, and are increasingly turning to cloud technologies to aid them in their work. We’re so grateful for the work of these experts, and want to support them with tools and technologies that can help them combat this pandemic. Today, we’re sharing more on a number of initiatives that we’re engaged with to support researchers and the organizations and communities they serve. Helping researchers forecast COVID-19 spread and impact The Laboratory for the Modelling of Biological + Sociotechnical…

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Platforms

Tencent Cloud Launches International Anti-COVID-19 Service Package

On April 13th Tencent Cloud launched an international anti-COVID-19 service package to help support the global fight against the pandemic. The package will help companies, medical institutions and governments worldwide tackle the unique challenges presented by COVID-19. This is the latest step taken by Tencent to assist in the global campaign against the pandemic, beginning with the establishment of a US$100 million global anti-COVID-19 fund and the rollout of a global COVID-19 information platform. Products launched in the first phase can be used in a wide range of scenarios including enabling remote collaboration, facilitating online medical consultation and helping governments…

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Apple And Google Partner On COVID-19 Contact Tracing Technology

Across the world, governments and health authorities are working together to find solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, to protect people and get society back up and running. Software developers are contributing by crafting technical tools to help combat the virus and save lives. In this spirit of collaboration, Google and Apple are announcing a joint effort to enable the use of Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus, with user privacy and security central to the design. Since COVID-19 can be transmitted through close proximity to affected individuals, public health officials have identified…

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Platforms

HUAWEI CLOUD: Fighting COVID-19 With Technology

Recently, HUAWEI CLOUD announced that they launched a global action plan to help customers around the world to fight COVID-19 with cloud and AI services. As part of this international action plan against the coronavirus, HUAWEI CLOUD will be providing free AI and cloud services and will be recruiting partners around the world to help fight this pandemic together. Deng Tao, President of HUAWEI CLOUD Global Market, stated, “HUAWEI CLOUD has been working with partners in China to use innovative technologies such as cloud and AI to fight the pandemic, and has accumulated practical experience with AI-assisted CT scan analysis,…

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Video Chat Apps Rise To Prominence Amid Pandemic

With a huge chunk of the world in quarantine or lockdown in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, people have resorted to online platforms in order to continue working and to stay connected with their family and friends. That being the case, it should come as no surprise that massive increases in the global downloads of popular video chat apps for mobile phones like Skype, Zoom, and Houseparty have been observed. Surge Near the end of March, the downloads of these applications have greatly inflated, according to the records of Priori Data. Skype, with 26.9 million global downloads recorded the…

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How Google Cloud Is Helping U.S Public Sector Agencies During The COVID-19 Pandemic And Beyond

In light of the current situation with COVID-19, public sector agencies are turning to the cloud more than ever, particularly as people increasingly need access to information and government services. Today, we’re happy to share more on our efforts to help governments with their COVID-19 needs and also highlight a few recent agreements with state and local agencies. Supporting government agencies through COVID-19 As COVID-19 continues to evolve, we are working with governments at all levels to help them connect with people and identify ways that data-driven research can help counter this global pandemic. Around the world, we are working…

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IBM Offers “Watson Assistant for Citizens” To Provide Responses To COVID-19 Questions

With COVID-19 affecting 206 countries, areas and territories, IBM is helping government agencies, healthcare organizations and academic institutions throughout the world use AI to put critical data and information into the hands of their citizens. With a flood of information requests from citizens, wait times in many areas to receive answers can exceed two hours. Available for no charge for at least 90 days and available to our client’s citizens online or by phone, IBM Watson Assistant for Citizens on the IBM public cloud brings together Watson Assistant, Natural Language Processing capabilities from IBM Research, and state-of-art enterprise AI search capabilities with Watson Discovery, to understand and respond…

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