{"id":104050,"date":"2020-03-20T14:44:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T21:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/five-companies-using-ai-to-fight-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-03-20T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T21:44:48","slug":"five-companies-using-ai-to-fight-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/five-companies-using-ai-to-fight-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"Five Companies Using AI to Fight Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/five-companies-using-ai-to-fight-coronavirus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday afternoon, there are 10,985 <a href=\"https:\/\/covidtracking.com\/data\/\">confirmed cases<\/a> of COVID-19 in the United States and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/emergency-preparedness-and-response\/mcm-issues\/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-frequently-asked-questions\">zero<\/a> FDA-approved drugs to treat the <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tag\/coronavirus?utm_source=spectrum-hero\">infection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While DARPA works on short-term \u201cfirebreak\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/the-human-os\/biomedical\/bionics\/darpas-firebreak-treatment-for-the-coronavirus\">countermeasures<\/a> and computational scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/the-human-os\/biomedical\/devices\/genetic-sequencing-and-online-software-tools-track-caronaviruss-path\">track<\/a> sources of new cases of the virus, a host of drug discovery companies are putting their AI technologies to work predicting which existing drugs, or brand-new drug-like molecules, could treat the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of Thursday afternoon, there are 10,985 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States and zero FDA-approved drugs to treat the infection. While DARPA works on short-term \u201cfirebreak\u201d countermeasures and computational scientists track sources of new cases of the virus, a host of drug discovery companies are putting their AI technologies to work predicting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}