Could AI avert a future coronavirus pandemic?

Could AI prevent future pandemics by developing an armoury of drugs that work against all coronaviruses?

This is a question that a consortium of European pharma companies hopes to answer as it aims to rapidly develop new therapies to combat the pandemic.

The Corona Accelerated R&D in Europe (CARE) has been hastily set up by Europe’s Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), focusing on tackling the pandemic that has wreaked so much havoc across the world this year.