Feature: artificial intelligence driving disease prevention, digital health enables personalised medicine, investment takes off
The novel coronavirus first discovered in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019 has shaken the world like no other pathogen this century. The spread of the virus, now called SARS-CoV-2, and the associated covid-19 illness affected the healthcare systems around the world and other aspects of daily life including education, entertainment, work and socialising.
Vaccine development, which typically involves a lengthy and intricate process, has accelerated in the past year, with different healthtech and biotech ecosystem builders attempting…