Scientists at the Universities of Manchester and Oxford have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) framework that can identify and track new and concerning Covid-19 variants and could help with future infections.
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Researchers in the United Kingdom have created an affordable, portable device that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the accuracy of testing for infectious diseases, especially Covid-19. The device, called VIDIIA Hunter (VH6), combines the RT-LAMP molecular technique, used in virus detection tests, with an AI learning model.
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After 15 weeks of constant growth, the positivity rate for covid-19 fell 7 percentage points in one month and reached 26% (week ending November 4). The analyzes are from the Todos pela Saúde Institute (ITpS) based on molecular diagnostic data carried out by partner laboratories Dasa, DB Molecular, Fleury, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein (HIAE), Hilab, HLAGyn and Sabin.
On the rise two months ago, positivity for SARS-CoV-2 (covid-19) grew five percentage points in 15 days and in the week from September 17th to 23rd it reached 30,2%. It is the first time since December 2022 that the percentage of positive tests has reached 30%.
In 15 days, positivity for SARS-CoV-2 (covid-19) grew eight percentage points and in the week from September 3 to 9 it reached 22,3%. The rate is over 26% across all age groups from 29 to 79 years old – the highest (29%) was observed in people aged 39 to 49 years old.
Meta has temporarily blocked searches for topics related to Covid-19 on Threads, as cases of the disease increase in several countries around the world. Attempts to search for “Covid” and “coronavirus” in the app display a blank screen and a link to the Ministry of Health website. In the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention page appears.
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The UN committee against racism denounced, this Thursday (31), the refusal of rich countries, in particular Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, to renounce intellectual property rights over vaccines against Covid-19.
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The positivity rate for SARS-CoV-2 (covid-19) doubled in one month, going from 7% to 15,3% between the weeks ending July 22nd and August 19th. The highest percentages are observed in the age groups from 49 to 59 years old (21,4%) and over 80 years old (20,9%).
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved, this Wednesday (30), an adapted version of the Pfizer/BioNTech anti-covid vaccine to combat an infection caused by a subvariant of the virus that was widely disseminated in winter.
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