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    Will Silicon Valley be your healthcare provider one day? It's very likely | Christopher Kulendran Thomas

    Chinese big tech was at the heart of China’s official response to Covid-19. Now Apple and Google are doing the same in the west
    by Christopher Kulendran Thomas Jul 14, 2020 4 minutes
    ‘In Britain the government’s plans for a centralised, homegrown NHS app are coming under criticism over privacy concerns; and the UK is looking into switching to the Apple-Google model.’ Photograph: AFP via Getty Images

    Chinese tech giant Alibaba launched its Taobao app in 2003 at the peak of the Sars epidemic. In January, as the spread of Covid-19 was erupting in China, Taobao introduced an online clinic for coronavirus patients. A month later, Alibaba launched an initiative to supply critical medicines to chronically ill patients across China and is also developing a CT scan algorithm to diagnose Covid-19 within 20 seconds.

    Alibaba Cloud currently holds the world record for high-precision whole-genome sequencing and is providing free cloud computing and artificial intelligence capabilities to public research institutions for virus gene sequencing and drug development. Meanwhile both Alibaba’s Alipay and competitor TenCent’s WeChat have ‘ that classify citizens as green, yellow or red, determining

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