
The COVID-19 pandemic has woven a lot of changes into the fabric of society. Many of these changes have pertained to technology and the ways in which technological tools have been harnessed. Machine learning is a prime example of this. On fact, there is much to be gained from reviewing the interactions of machine learning analytics and COVID-19.
Updated Epidemiological Models
Since the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the biggest challenges for health systems has been to gain an understanding of the community spread of this virus and to determine how likely is it that a person walking through the doors of a facility is at a higher risk of being COVID-19 positive.
In response, machine learning was used to modify an existing epidemiological model to predict the spread of disease. Researchers introduced a neural network trained to deal with real data associated with the novel coronavirus. …