The COVID-19 outbreak has been accompanied by an ‘infodemic’, described by the World Health Organisation as, “an overabundance of information – some accurate and some not – that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it”.
This means frontline healthcare workers are facing the impossible task of cutting through a ‘global tidal wave’ of information that might contain clues for the best possible treatments for COVID-19 patients – a disease that has never been seen before, with no established form of treatment.
A new project, led by Imperial College London and enabled by Amazon Web Services (AWS), is responding to the ‘infodemic’ with the creation of a global knowledge platform.
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Source: Imperial College London to launch COVID-19 ‘infodemic’ knowledge platform using AWS