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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - DECEMBER 17: A nurse shows a container of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine after it was used to vaccinate the first five staff members at Roseland Community Hospital on December 17, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. Roseland Community Hospital is situated in the Roseland neighborhood on the city s far south side. The neighborhood s population is 95 percent black. The COVID-19 death rate among black residents in Chicago is nearly double that of the city’s white residents.
The European Medicines Agency focuses on reviewing and approving COVID-19 vaccines in the European Union. The health agency also monitors, evaluates, and supervises any new drugs and medicines introduced to the EU.
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COVID-19 has infected more than 23 million Americans and killed 386,000 of them to date, since the global pandemic began last March. Complicating the public health response is the fact that we still know so little about how the virus operates such as why some patients remain asymptomatic while it ravages others. Effectively allocating resources like ICU beds and ventilators becomes a Sisyphean task when doctors can only guess as to who might recover and who might be intubated within the next 96 hours. However a trio of new machine learning algorithms developed by Facebook’s AI division (FAIR) in cooperation with NYU Langone Health can help predict patient outcomes up to four days in advance using just a patient’s chest x-rays.
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