Covid-19: Respuestas Desde la Ingeniería y la Inteligencia Artificial

“COVID-19: Experiences from Engineering” defines itself as a work of scientific dissemination, where complex issues related to the pandemic are addressed through a natural and close language that enables citizens in general to understand concepts with the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease, how vaccines work, and Artificial Intelligence-based technologies used to analyze audible cough signals. The central theme of the work is COVID-19, particularly for the case study of what happened in Ecuador, always from an engineering approach, trying to understand the behavior of the related phenomena that have been happening over time. The work is divided into three well-marked reading sections, marked by the type of information available and by the application of engineering solutions to the problem of recognizing the acoustic characteristics of the virus in an audible cough signal. The first section of the book can be defined as a process of collecting and analyzing information obtained through the different private and state journalistic media, written as a narrative. Information related to the origin of the virus, its spread and the declaration of a pandemic by the WHO is exposed, as well as the arrival of the virus in Ecuador and several relevant events related to the mass vaccination process in the country. Subsequently, a statistical analysis of the evolution of the pandemic at different levels, local, regional and national, is carried out, describing the different scenarios that have occurred over time, to finally carry out an analysis of the impact of the pandemic. the pandemic in two locations in the country, determining the reasons why the pandemic could affect some regions more than others. All this information has been collected almost entirely from information published in prestigious national and international newspapers, such as El País and El Mundo in Spain, the London BBC, the New York Times in the United States, El Universo and El Comercio of Ecuador and in the information offered by the National Government through the Secretariat of Risks and later through the Ministry of Public Health, with the daily reports of infections made available to the citizenry. Information sources such as the web pages of the WHO, the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador and the National Government have also been used. The second section of the book is oriented towards a description of the characteristics of the virus, its shape, the way it acts on the body and the way the immune system acts to deal with it. For this, a search was also carried out based on information from journalistic research, but it was already possible to include information found in related scientific publications. Unlike the first section, in this one you will be able to find some scientific references for what has been exposed, in addition to the basic journalistic information. What is true is that the language used has been sought to allow for an easy-to-understand reading. Later, in.