Merck announced results of an ongoing Phase 3 study of antiviral pill that may slash risk of being hospitalized or dying of the virus by 50%. "I actually think this is a huge advance in our fight to counter COVID," Dr. John Brownstein says. https://abcn.ws/39ZMK9c | ABC News Live

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How is Merck using AI to understand complex diseases and accelerate medical innovation? One approach is TEDDY; their AI model trained on data from more than 116 million cells from 24,000 donors. With TEDDY, Merck and the BCG X AI Science Institute are identifying new genes that are important in many different diseases, enabling scientists to gain deeper insights and discover breakthrough medicines. This is Impact in 60, presented by Judith Mueller and Julien Delile. Explore more from BCG’s Impac

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