How AI health care chatbots learn from the questions of an Indian women’s organization – ET HealthWorld

How AI health care chatbots learn from the questions of an Indian women’s organization – ET HealthWorld

New York: Komal Vilas Thatkare says she doesn’t have anyone to ask about her most private health questions. “There are only men in my home – no ladies,” said the 32-year-old mother and housewife in Mumbai. “I don’t speak to anyone here. So I used this app as it helps me in my personal problems.” … Read more

Gates Foundation funding $40 million effort to help develop mRNA vaccines in Africa in coming years

Gates Foundation funding $40 million effort to help develop mRNA vaccines in Africa in coming years

Headquarters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle. | Photo Credit: AP A $40 million investment will help several African manufacturers produce new messenger RNA vaccines on the continent where people were last in line to receive jabs during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Monday. While it could … Read more

For the next pandemic, we’ll have gigantic mRNA factories in India: Bill Gates

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Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, says the variant will make it difficult for the world to end the pandemic by 2022, missing his last year’s estimate. In a telephone interview to TOI+, Gates spoke on a range of issues, from vaccinating the elderly to creating factory capacities large enough to … Read more

Slow to start, China now vaccinating at a staggering pace

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In the span of just five days last month, China gave out 100 million shots of its COVID-19 vaccines. After a slow start, China is now doing what virtually no other country in the world can: harnessing the power and all-encompassing reach of its one-party system and a maturing domestic vaccine industry to administer shots … Read more