What COVID looks like below the surface of the election

By Walter Pincus

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged from nuclear weapons to politics. He is the author of Blown to Hell: America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders. Pincus won an Emmy in 1981 and was the recipient of the Arthur Ross Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy in 2010.  He was also a team member for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 and the George Polk Award in 1978.  

OPINION — On August 6, 2020, an unusual, two-year, $870,000 contract for artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine imaging related to COVID-19 was awarded to Bunkerhill Health Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., for work to be performed for the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC).

The contract called for “the development of an algorithm that will detect, quantify, and predict outcomes of the novel coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) for use by the Department of Defense” over a 24-month base period.

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