Emergence of Major Pandemics: Examining the Use of AI for the Fight Against Covid-19

Authors

  • Jean-Marie KUATE FOTSO National Committee for Development of Technologies, Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
  • Styve Arnol Kayo National Committee for Development of Technologies, Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
  • Pélagie Flore Temgoua Nanfack National Committee for Development of Technologies, Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
  • Guy Phares Fotso Fotso National Committee for Development of Technologies, Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Keywords:

Artificial intelligence, COVID-19, treatment; tracking, sars-cov-2, great pandemic

Abstract

Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and which is considered today as a global health emergency. Long before this pandemic, several others such as the plague of Athens, the plague of Antonine, the black plague, the Spanish flu, cholera, the Asian flu, AIDS raged, with consequences as fatal, even more serious than covid-19. The emergence of AI over the past ten years has brought it to the forefront of the response to this disease. The objective of this work is to present the significant contribution of AI in the fight against the new coronavirus, comparing it to previous large pandemics. A preliminary search of information related to past pandemics and covid-19 has been carried out. Next, the contribution of AI following the WHO framework for combating pandemics was presented. Finally, the discussion part resulted in the conclusion that if AI had already been fundamentally implemented during the time of the other major pandemics, the damage to human losses would have been less.

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2022-01-30

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KUATE FOTSO, J.-M., Kayo, S. A. ., Temgoua Nanfack, P. F. ., & Fotso Fotso, G. P. . (2022). Emergence of Major Pandemics: Examining the Use of AI for the Fight Against Covid-19. International Journal of Computer (IJC), 42(1), 17–29. Retrieved from https://ijcjournal.org/index.php/InternationalJournalOfComputer/article/view/1908

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