Technology can help to detect Corona - COVID 19

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Monitoring Corona virus patients remotely with clinical-grade sensors and collecting data on numerous physiological signals could improve clinical decision-making for providers.

Digital tools such as telehealth, remote patient monitoring, data analytics and even consumer-facing AI-based chatbots could play a key role in containing the outbreak of COVID-19 and help people who think they've been exposed to the novel coronavirus. This will help to diagnose not cure the disease.

For example, AI-based algorithms could be most helpful in providing information about patients who have already been diagnosed with COVID-19 or who are suspected of being infected.
Monitoring these patients remotely with clinical-grade sensors and collecting data on numerous physiological signals could improve clinical decision-making for providers, and the process can also help them learn more about the disease so they can better treat it.
The learning from the AI-based algorithms could then be combined with other information such as laboratory and imaging tests to create a composite mechanism that could help clinicians understand the disease better, and ultimately lead to better detection or prediction of the early signs of infection. 

 COVID-19: Avoiding Fear and Panic

There are things that disrupt the spread of the virus. These are all about not allowing the virus a route into your body or from one person to another. I call these the six to fix

  1. First,  washing your hands frequently and well for at least twenty seconds with good technique (we have links to videos below). Before you leave for work, when you get to work, before all breaks, before lunch, after lunch and when you get home.
  2. Not touching your face, eyes, nose or mouth so you deny the virus a route into your body. A good rule is “keep your hands below your shoulders unless you’ve just washed them well” if you find the “don’t touch” rule a challenge.
  3. Staying a meter apart from people and not having handshakes and so on at meetings
  4. Coughing and sneezing into a tissue, binning it and washing your hands (or coughing into the crook of your elbow) so you deny drops from coughs and sneezes a route onto your hands or surfaces and then into the eyes, mouth, and nose of others
  5. Decent and frequent cleaning of surfaces people touch frequently, with detergent, like lift buttons, light switches, door handles and so on
  6. Self-isolating if you have a new continuous cough and a fever so if you have the virus, you don’t spread it.  And if you have something else, well you won’t spread that other.
Hand sanitizer is a reasonable second best if you don’t have soap and water. Making people use it coming into meetings and public buildings in addition to hand washing is an extra layer of defense.