{"id":3123,"date":"2023-04-04T18:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T23:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2023-04-04T18:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T23:51:03","slug":"palantirs-plan-to-decipher-the-mysteries-of-long-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/04\/04\/palantirs-plan-to-decipher-the-mysteries-of-long-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Palantir\u2019s Plan to Decipher the Mysteries of Long Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/wired-health-palantir-big-data-long-covid\/\">Wired Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>he tech giant is helping researchers and clinicians decipher vast amounts of data generated by people with persistent symptoms.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Health &amp; Tech: Using Data to Understand Long Covid with Dr Indra Joshi | WIRED Health\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/khRp3B866J4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>AT LEAST&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/we-re-all-vulnerable-one-in-10-people-will-end-up-with-long-covid-new-study-says-20230115-p5ccn5.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">65 million<\/a>&nbsp;people are still suffering from long Covid, the mysterious cocktail of symptoms that persist in some patients more than 12 weeks after an initial infection. Researchers are still working to understand this illness, but it\u2019s been slow progress so far.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is because long Covid is not just a medical problem\u2014it\u2019s also a data problem, says Indra Joshi, director of health, research, and artificial intelligence at Palantir, which specializes in analyzing big data.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National COVID Cohort Collaborative,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ncats.nih.gov\/n3c\">aka N3C<\/a>, is essentially a giant, collaborative database, enabling clinicians and researchers to study the deidentified data of people suffering from Covid-19 or related conditions. \u201cIf you\u2019re diagnosed with Covid now, your data goes into this enclave,\u201d says Joshi, explaining that N3C now includes 2.1 billion clinical observations. The data enclave also encourages clinicians to enter data in a standardized format, making it easy for their insights to be compared with data collected from other US hospitals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By harmonizing all this data, the N3C acts as a collective pool of information that researchers can dip into to try to find consensus on the ongoing mysteries of long Covid: What exactly are the symptoms? What treatments are people receiving? And how are they responding to those treatments? Already the N3C data has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ncats.nih.gov\/news\/releases\/2022\/scientists-identify-characteristics-to-better-define-long-COVID\">helped better define<\/a>&nbsp;the symptoms that make up long Covid. It has also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nih.gov\/news-events\/news-releases\/nih-recover-research-identifies-potential-long-covid-disparities\">revealed<\/a>&nbsp;that Black and Hispanic Americans, in comparison to white patients, appear to experience more symptoms and health problems related to long Covid, but are less likely to be diagnosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy collating that information, and by allowing lots of different researchers to work on that information, you enable much more research to be done, and much more to be published,\u201d says Joshi. \u201cWe\u2019ve now learnt a lot more about the SARS-CoV-2 virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired Magazine he tech giant is helping researchers and clinicians decipher vast amounts of data generated by people with persistent symptoms. AT LEAST&nbsp;65 million&nbsp;people are still suffering from long Covid, the mysterious cocktail of symptoms that persist in some patients more than 12 weeks after an initial infection. 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