Silicon Valley Prescribes 'Big Data' to Combat COVID-19 – NBC Bay Area
Medical workers remain desperate to find an edge with each spike of coronavirus cases. Doctors and nurses worry about running out of hospital beds, especially in the Intensive Care Unit, where the most serious cases of COVID-19 are treated. A team of data scientists at Stanford, however, has found a way to boost ICU capacity by as much as 25%. “I would have imagined that people who were sent home with oxygen would have a higher chance of getting complications. That did not turn out to be the case,” said Dr. Nigam Shah, a data scientist and a professor of Medical Bioinformatics at Stanfo...
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