MAR 2020
Enterprises supporting the efforts with AI DeepMind – a subsidiary of Google ' s parent company , Alphabet – shared its predictions of coronavirus protein structures with its AlphaFold AI system . IBM , Amazon , Google and Microsoft also provided the computing power of their servers to the US authorities to process very large datasets in epidemiology , bioinformatics and molecular modelling .
JAN 2021
Using AI to distribute the vaccine Just shy of a year after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic , countries began to roll out their vaccine programmes . AI proved helpful , as it could be applied to improve understanding on which populations to target to curve the pandemic sooner and adjust both supply chain and distribution logistics to ensure the most people get vaccinated in the least amount of time .
FEB 2021
Creating COVID vaccines candidates with AI A team at the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California created an AI framework that significantly speeds-up the analysis of COVID vaccine candidates and also finds the best preventative medical therapies . This came at a time when more and more COVID mutations were emerging , bringing existing vaccines ’ efficacy into question .
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