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Using AI to understand post-covid syndrome

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Using AI to understand post-covid syndrome
Using AI to understand post-covid syndrome

How Artificial Intelligence is helping Mayo Clinic researchers understand why Covid-19 symptoms can linger for some people.

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Thank you for joining us for kimt news 3 at 10?

"* i'm katie lange.

And i'm george mallet.

First tonight they're unpleasant side effects.

Fatigue... difficulty breathing... and persistant pain.... sometimes lasting longer than six months.

Post?

"*covid syndrome has perplexed medical experts since the beginning of this pandemic... but now... researchers at mayo clinic are coming together to find help for so?

"*called long?

"*hauler covid patients who continue feeling symptoms after testing negative for coronavirus.

Kimt news three's anthony monzon is live outside the gonda building tonight.

Anthony ?

"* what did you learn?

Well katie and george... many of the most serious coronavirus cases in our area come through the intensive care unit here at saint marys hospital... and some of them will leave testing negative for covid?

"*19... but still feeling long?

"* lasting symptoms. now mayo clinic is convening a task force that will combine a group of medical experts and cutting edge artificial intelligence to better understand what researchers are calling post?

"*covid syndrome starting next monday... a team of physicians with several different specialties will begin working with patients battling post?

"* covid syndrome... checking their symptoms and introducing different therapies.

Doctors will then take the information they've gathered from patients... and feed it into an algorythm designed to identify trends and abnormalities.

As researchers see more patients... that algorythm will continue refining itself... and at some point... experts hope it can begin accurately predicting who may develop post?

"*covid syndrome... "this will be one of the few times that we have a brand new disease that there is no data to build this model on, and we will see that model evolve in real time.

A lot of time when things come to market, they're working off a database of 6 million diabetes patients for example."

And while their work with patients begins next week... this team has already been conducting in?

"* depth analysees of post?

"*covid syndrome... including an effort to create an exact definition for post?

"*covid syndrome which has proven to be ntioned these experts have already started their research on post?

"*covid syndrome.

Have thy shared any of their initial findings with you?

They did george... and their research presented a few questions they would like to address... including why younger people seem to get post?

"*covid syndrome more frequently than experts originally thought was possible... and why it seems to be more common in women.

Katie... george... thanks anthony.

Doctor ganesh says between 10 and 15?

"* percent of people who contract coronavirus develop post?

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