The importance of using Big Data or Databases in dealing with the Corona Virus

Pandemic

Big data and the high degree of technologies available are one of the advantages that
we have today in fighting corona virus, which was not as advanced in the SARS
epidemic of 2003. As the virus spread throughout China in order to track and contain
the outbreak, China taped into the big data, engine learning and other digital tools. The
lessons learnt there are now being applied globally as many countries combat the virus
outbreak and use emerging technologies to build real-time predictions to provide Intel
with funding from healthcare practitioners and policymakers to anticipate the impact of
corona virus.

In the country's response to COVID-19, China's monitoring culture became useful. High
body temperatures a possible symptom of illness has been identified at train stations. If
the temperature is high, the person will be detained for corona virus testing by health
officials. If the test for corona virus is positive, authorities will alert all other passengers
who are potentially exposed to the virus to quarantine. This note was made possible by
the country's travel legislation forcing any public transport passenger to use its true
names and government-issued identity cards.

In addition to monitoring attacks, China has millions of CCTV cameras used to monitor
citizen's movement. This helped authorities to identify individuals who did not comply
with quarantine orders. Should a person be in the quarantine, but cameras track them
away from home, the authorities would be called. In order to chart movements, cell
phone data was also used.

In addition, the Chinese government has introduced a "Soft Touch Tracker" program
that warns users to touch anyone who had the virus. Travel verification reports from
telecommunications providers may list all cities visited by an individual during the last 14
days to decide if their locations suggested quarantine. The country has been able to find

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ways to combat the spread of corona virus by integrating the data collected from
China's surveillance system.

Data protection for people is more of an issue in Europe and America than in China, but
researchers in the field of medicine and bioethics understand the technology's power to
help pandemic touch detection. The Big Data Institute of Oxford University worked with
government officials on the advantages of a mobile app that could provide valuable
information on an integrated corona virus management strategy. As about half of all
transmissions of corona virus occur prior to the initiation of symptoms, speed and
reliability are critical to alert individuals who are exposed to corona viruses. A mobile
application using technology from the 21st century can speed up the notification
process while maintaining ethics which slows the contagion rate.

Tech innovators already worked on solutions to monitor the spread of flu effectively and
monitor it. In 2011, Flu Phone was introduced but its utility has not been widely
embraced. Other app solutions are being developed by a number of organizations to
help people identify their health and symptoms by themselves. They are also available.
In addition to all the corona virus problems we face, it also offers valuable knowledge-
based opportunities in healthcare data science.

In the United States, Government is talking to technology giants like Facebook, Google
and others about what is and ethical possible to track movements and understand
patterns by using location data from American smart phones.

The organizations like the World Health Organisation that provide real time statistics are
another resource that has allowed private people, government decision makers as well
as health providers to see how the epidemic progresses and educate them of how
contagious this virus can be. The dashboards collect data from all over the world to
show confirmed corona virus cases and deaths. This extensive data kit can then be
used to create models and predict hotspots for the disease so that decisions on

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remaining in the home can be made and healthcare systems can help prepare for an
increase in cases.

Outbreak analysis takes all available data, including the number of cases that have
been confirmed, deaths, and contacts with infected individuals, population densities,
maps, passenger travel flows and more, and then uses machine training to create
patterns of illness. These are the best forecasts of the peak rates and results of
infection.

Thanks to its proximity to China, daily flights to China from the island every day and how
many Taiwanese people work in China, it was believed that Taiwan would be seriously
affected. However, following the 2003 SARS outbreak Taiwan used technology and a
solid pandemic plan to minimize the effect of the virus on its land.

The National Health Insurance Registry and its immigration and customs services are
part of the policy. In this way they were able to receive real-time information about who
could be infected based on symptoms and travel history by centralizing the data in front
of the corona virus. They also had a QR code scan and online travel and health
symptoms report which allowed them to categorize the risks of traveling infections and a
free hotline for people to report suspicious symptoms. WHO minute information on
pneumonia of unknown cause was broadcast by officials from China on December 31,
2019. This was the first case of a corona virus, and given its proximity to China,
Taiwan's rapid reaction and technological usage are likely to lead to lower infections
than others.

Taiwan is a country which has made great efforts to prevent corona virus spread by
large data. Taiwan managed to bravely manage the Covid-19 despite its proximity to
China. In mainland China, more than 400,000 of its residents work. According to the
American Medical Association’s Report, but it was possible for authorities to monitor the
spread of the virus through the use of big data were monitoring and mobile phone
Tracking.

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Shanghai also uses broad data in order to reduce the additional chance of transmitting
corona virus. Shanghai workers reportedly report their temperature, history and other
information, and were later forwarded to a big data platform for epidemic prevention by
authorities.

Researchers use large-scale data and analytics at the US Rensselaer Polytechnic

Institute (RPI) to help explain corona virus in many different ways. Biomedical research
is one aspect. Much work is still being conducted to create a vaccine and figure out,
according to a company report, that any current drugs work for COVID-19 through the
use of the IA and software to chart stuff about the virus.

The pandemic impacts are being detected by companies in various innovative ways. A
big data corona virus search engine was developed by Verizon, for example. This is an
open-source project, which explores over 50,000 publications in corona virus scientific
science and provides extremely applicable knowledge on the COVID-19 study. The
papers are updated weekly when new papers for investigation are available in peer-
reviewed publications and archives such as bioRxiv, preprints of biological sciences and
medRxiv, preprints of health science. The publications are also related to Microsoft
Academic and to, inter alia, the WHO COVID-19 website.

Whilst big data are likely to help curb the epidemic, research is ongoing, their privacy
threats are massive. Several experiments have found that position data is especially
sensitive as it can be used to create a complex and disturbing maps of a person's
activities, interactions and behavior with public and private information.

While Google and Facebook have claimed that their projects only include a snapshot of
the actions of individuals and not comprehensive translation records, the confidential
information of users has been exposed during data breaches. Whilst data collection can
be innocuous, additional protections, such as limitations, which has access to and for
whatever reason, deletion and other requirements, will follow this. Further, there has
historically been a lack of transparency in the data sharing practices in the technology

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sector, making it difficult for individuals and users in general to trust whether or not such
safeguarding is being strictly implemented.

To order to monitor the situation COVID-19, smaller companies are now using data-
intensive technology. Aiisma Indian startup honors the consumers of its behavioral data
via the Aiisma App for being shared through consensus and anonymity. The position-
sharing and health-mapping capabilities of the markets can be used to accurately
monitor interactions, which were the greatest aid to counter COVID-19 to date. Of
course the insights gained by the Aiísma ecosystem are spreading to help citizens and
an authority combat the virus and creates a digital fence against COVID-19.

In combating corona virus and future pandemics, technology is vital. Big data, machine
learning and other technology can help people on the fronts to identify the best
preparation and response to this and future pandemics, as well as be able to support
the modeling efforts and predicts how the pandemics will flow.

Over the present crisis, big data and other technology-led innovations will allow us to
enhance our knowledge of this epidemic and access to healthcare, but security experts
have stressed time and again that the push to make effective use of technology should
not be an authorization to perform dangerous tests that violate privacy and civil rights.
Long when the crisis is over, this is a lesson one will remember. Nonetheless,
technologies such as IA, Big Data and deep learning can be confidently and quickly
studied and the pandemic flow anticipated and helped to determine the right solution in
the battle against corona-viruses and pandemics in the future.