On Dev. 11, 2020, the University of Oxford reported that an Artificial Intelligence test had been shown to be able to rapidly screen patients arriving in Emergency Departments for COVID-19, using clinical information routinely available within the first hour of coming to hospital.

Results of the CURIAL study, published in The Lancet Digital Health, showed that the AI test correctly predicted the COVID-19 status of 92.3% of patients coming to Emergency departments at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury during a two-week test period.