Data­vant boots up a big Covid-19 reg­istry — look­ing to shine a light on virus spread, im­pact and most ef­fec­tive ther­a­pies

Data­vant, the Vivek Ra­maswamy health­care in­for­ma­tion start­up, is launch­ing a data­base of anonymized Covid-19 pa­tient da­ta pooled from more than two dozen health­care da­ta and an­a­lyt­ics com­pa­nies, po­ten­tial­ly giv­ing re­searchers ac­cess to sta­tis­tics that could help re­veal how the virus spreads, what pop­u­la­tions are most af­fect­ed, and — while doc­tors wait for clin­i­cal tri­al re­sults — what treat­ments will be most ef­fec­tive.

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