How data scientists are helping governments to fight COVID-19

Watching the news about the rapidly spreading COVID-19 cases, one thing that comes in mind is that how we are going to win over this. Is this lock-down period is going to demolish this lethal virus or not? We all are thinking about this while staying at home. But there are people who are not only thinking but working tirelessly to bring normalcy in our life. We are grateful to our corona worriers. The swift, global spread of COVID-19 has not only brought world health organization and healthcare Industry in centre, it also bring in the advanced analytics tool of data science in front to monitor and reduce the Impact of virus.

Data Science researcher and developers are progressively using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) to track and contain coronavirus to gather a more comprehensive understanding of the COVID-19. Since COVID-19 has becomes the health Pandemic for world. Thousands are dying with each passing Day, The Data Scientists and researcher are working hard to uncover the nature of virus- why it affects some more than others, what measure can help reduce the spread, and where this will likely go next. 

The Challenges have divided into multiple task. Many online community for Data Scientist like Kaggle.com have call AI and ML researchers to develop text and data mining tools to analyze a dataset comprising tens of thousands of articles on virology and infectious disease. The goal is to help provide answers for COVID-19, or lines of inquiry about the disease. Many other portal have also invited data scientist to come ahead and produce their research paper and ML models to public space. 

The task-force of data scientist are working on these task to help healthcare industry to analyze outbreak of COVID-19 and exponential growth of cases, What is known about transmission, incubation, and environmental stability, What do we know about COVID-19 risk factors and etc. The researchers are taking n consideration, what has been published concerning ethical about coronavirus, What do we know about the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions, What has been published about medical care and What has been published about information sharing and inter-sectorial collaboration?

Though, Artificial Intelligence is not only helping in the detection of the affected people but it is simultaneously leading us to find remedies for fighting the virus. The world is fighting COVID-19 with Artificial Intelligence in the following ways; Virus Research using AI:  for making an antidote we need to know about virus genetics, origin, and evolution. Drug research using AI: millions of tests conducted with the help of AI-enabled tools to prove the effectiveness of a drug, and its consequences as well. Human trial may take even decade and cost billions of dollars, and snatch millions of lives. AI helps in processing the large volume of drug data through numerous test cases in a short span of time. Predicting Survival using AI:  To face such a critical situation, where millions are affected, China has created an AI tool handle the crisis swiftly. AI tools helps predict the survival rate of patients. This AI tool also helps in deciding the medication to be given to the patient. Besides, it helps doctors make better clinical decisions for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. Also, scientists have built the Machine Learning systems to predict the disease of the patients. 

The main reason of the spread of coronavirus is its hidden symptoms. In early the stage it is difficult to identify the infection. Unknowingly people travel from one place to another carrying the virus. Now governments have started to collect information of citizen about their travel history and medical records. Countries have already started processing this data with the help of Big Data tools. The processing of the data of billions of citizens involves removing redundancy, scaling the data, and structuring it for further use. This is only possible with the help of various essential tools of Big Data. Here, by analyzing and visualizing the trends of the huge data, Data Scientist will helps the governments in many ways. Data Science estimates can make it easy to understand the scope of further spread of the disease, the available medical infrastructure to admit affected patients, and the budget required for all of this. With these estimations, Data Science is helping the governments make arrangements for medical facilities and capital to spend on their Janta. In this way, along with Artificial Intelligence, the world is fighting COVID-19 with Machine Learning.