How could artificial intelligence aid in the fight against coronavirus?

Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy

Yassine, Hadi M.; Shah, Zubair.

Do you believe that artificial intelligence (AI) is the key to a cure for the coronavirus?

Dr Hadi: Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the means or avenues to understand the virus and develop preventative and control measures. This includes but is not limited to: the usage of mathematical modeling to understand virus transmission, structural biology to determine virus structure and develop vaccines, computational biology to understand virus evolution, as well as docking studies to screen for drugs and inhibitors

Keywords

COVID19, Artificial Intelligence, In-silico, Vaccines, Emerging Diseases

Faith, Politics and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Turkish Response

Medical anthropology

Alyanak, OÄŸuz.

Introduction

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, in Turkey, all eyes were on Diyanet, the Directorate of Religious Affairs, the country’s highest authority for regulating matters pertaining to Islamic practices. Would the Diyanet, like other religious authorities around the world, propose to close down mosques for a temporary period?

Keywords

Epidemiology