New York: In a first, a team of scientists has developed a new Covid-19 global surveillance system which can dynamically track not just where the virus is now, but where it is going, how fast it will arrive and whether that speed is accelerating.
The new surveillance system has now been rolled out in 195 countries.
“Now we can easily identify outbreaks at their beginning,” said Lori Post from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
“You want to know where the pandemic is accelerating, how fast it is moving and how that compares to prior weeks.”
James Oehmke of Northwestern University and Charles Moss of the University of Florida worked over the past four months to develop the novel surveillance system.
“We can inform leaders where the outbreak is occurring before it shows up in overcrowded hospitals and morgues,” Post said. “Current systems are static and ours is dynamic.”
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