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Le cliché émouvant, pris dans un hôpital du Texas le jour de Thanksgiving, a beaucoup touché les internautes.

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As a second pandemic wave breaks over much of the world, the need for sustainable
and effective test, trace, and isolate programmes is more pressing than ever. The
study by Michelle Kendall and colleagues1 in The Lancet Digital Health is thus welcome
and timely. This assessment of the effect of the pilot UK Test and Trace programme
on the Isle of Wight provides indirect, yet convincing, evidence of success in reducing
the effective reproduction number, and thereby the size of the first wave. However,
it is unclear how the programme will fare when expanded to settings that are less
ideal than the Isle of Wight, given its small population size and distinct natural
boundaries.

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Drug repurposing or repositioning is a technique whereby existing drugs are used to

treat emerging and challenging diseases, including COVID-19. Drug repurposing has

become a promising approach because of the opportunity for reduced development timelines

and overall costs. In the big data era, artificial intelligence (AI) and network medicine

offer cutting-edge application of information science to defining disease, medicine,

therapeutics, and identifying targets with the least error. In this Review, we introduce

guidelines on how to use AI for accelerating drug repurposing or repositioning, for

which AI approaches are not just formidable but are also necessary.

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Twitter déploie une nouvelle fonctionnalité pour lutter contre les fake news.

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