WHO director, Amazon CEO talk using tech to flatten COVID-19 curve

The World Health Organization director general and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos discussed how the two could work to control the spread of COVID-19 during a recent video conference, Yahoo Finance reports.

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Mr. Bezos and Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus discussed on March 26 using Amazon Web Services’ cloud computing and artificial intelligence as well as various possibilities for the distribution of COVID-19 test kits.

AWS is providing services to the WHO and its Epidemic Intelligence for Open Sources, an initiative to track trends in epidemiology through AI analysis. AWS also has pledged $20 million in support of the development of new tools that can detect and diagnose COVID-19.

In a Twitter post,  Dr. Ghebreyesus hinted at working with Amazon on data analytics and the distribution of more protective equipment and COVID-19 tests.

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