Impact of communication and information technologies in the fight against COVID-19

ABSTRACT

EHealth is defined as the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for health, a concept that has evolved in the last two decades, along with advances in this field. Given the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, ICTs have played an important role in society, informing the scope, risks and care of this disease, facilitating the care and monitoring of patients and allowing the logistics of Nations and organizations, among many other aspects. Additionally, technology has been a protagonist in the medical and scientific community, in the search for knowledge and understanding about the new coronavirus Sars-Cov-2, from its appearance in a Chinese town to the worrying impact by the new circulating variants, derived from the genetic mutation of the pathogen. This research study by Alphafold, GISAID and MasterOfPores, innovative technologies of public access, free and of high scientific reliability, which make up a new methodology in mutagenic detection, structural modeling and antigen research, in the fight against COVID-19 and its new variants. Finally, ICTs have been and will continue to be vital in the fight against COVID-19, in the research and development of antigens that make it possible to immunize a large part of the world's population.