Targeting infectious Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) with Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications: Evidence based opinion.

Mali, Suraj N; Pratap, Amit P

The current COVID-19 pandemic has opened the new doors for AI based technology adoption in various health care sectors. This will be bringing opportunities as well as risks. These technologies, upon proper human interventions and directions, will be useful for making faster decisions in current crisis. However, this should not mean that AI could bypass the various regulatory processes. Besides multiple potential applications, we should know that these technologies will be only benefited with proper human interventions and un-biased data. With proper AI based approaches, we will be definitely benefited with rapid diagnosis of disease, early warnings, fastening drug development processes and proper social control measures during this pandemic.