Machine Learning Used to Predict Where New Coronaviruses Might Develop Next
February 17, 2021
A researcher for Brazil s state-run Fiocruz Institute takes an oral swab sample from a bat captured in the Atlantic Forest, at Pedra Branca state park, near Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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Researchers have used
artificial intelligence (AI) methods in an effort to predict which animals might develop new kinds of coronaviruses that affect humans.
Scientists believe the new coronavirus spreading around the world, which causes the disease COVID-19, likely started in bats. It then jumped to another animal before infecting humans.
A team of scientists in the UK are trying to find out using a combination of artificial intelligence and biology in search for viruses emerging in animal populations that may help reduce the risk of emergence in human populations in a new study.
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The 5-year-old girl who was injured in the car crash involving then-Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid is awake from a coma.
Almost two weeks after the crash “Ariel Young is awake,” her family posted on their GoFundMe Page. They did not expand on her medical condition.
Authorities are still investigating the crash that occurred on Feb. 4 when Reid’s pickup struck two other vehicles parked on a highway entrance ramp. One of the vehicles had run out of gas and the other which Ariel was sitting in was there to help. The NFL is also looking into the incident.
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