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Fighting the Coronavirus with Big Data (2020x14)

Uitzenddatum: Apr 25, 2020

People are using big data to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Kanagawa Prefecture is the frontrunner in Japan in this regard. It sends questionnaires to the public via the LINE messaging app. The data it collects is used to predict which areas are more likely to have people with risk factors such as fever. In Britain, an "AI doctor" provides medical advice to people who may have contracted the virus. We take a look at the latest efforts to use technology to deal with the threat posed by the coronavirus.