How $4 billion funded the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic response (medicalxpress.com)
New University of Virginia School of Medicine research is shedding light on how federal funding helped scientists understand the COVID-19 virus, develop new treatments and deploy lifesaving vaccines in record time.
The work is published in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
The UVA Health researchers used advanced "machine learning"—a form of artificial intelligence—to analyze the thousands of scientific publications that resulted from the National Institutes of Health's deployment of more than $4 billion to combat the pandemic. This analysis allowed the researchers to categorize the types of research the money supported and determine how and where the funding was used to launch clinical trials of treatments and vaccines.
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