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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the COVID-19 Vax

Youth and young adults have questions about the COVID-19 vaccine, and they are commonly fluent in technology use. These worlds are colliding with Vira, the Vax Chatbot, powered by artificial intelligence and designed to answer simple questions on the COVID-19 vaccine. The automated chat also has an option to provide feedback to the developers for improvements. 

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Vira, the Vax Chatbot

Artificial Intelligence is a rising, popular technology like Google's Assistant, Microsoft's Cortana, or Amazon's Alexa. Vira is an artificial intelligence chatbot powered by IBM that connects to a database of COVID-19 vaccines information and learning to answer the questions efficiently. Vira was "developed by the International Vaccine Access Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with experts from the Bloomberg School's Department of International Health and Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering (Covington Michelle, personal communication, Oct 04, 2021)."

Are you excited to learn more about Vira? Let us know in the comments below! For youth and young adults, ages 13-26, join us on the SPAN Youth Chat on Wednesdays from 3:30 - 4:00 PM. 

Author,

Jeremy Hayer

Resources...

Vira, the Vax Chatbot: https://youtu.be/t6z2tKe47kQ

Link to SPAN’s website: www.spanadvocacy.org 

Link to SPAN’s Youth in the Know Resource Page: Youth in the Know

We’re here for you! Call SPAN if you need assistance: 1-800-654-7726


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