by CivMetrics Staff | Mar 11, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health
Taiwan took to heart its hard-earned lessons from the SARS outbreak and is now one of the success stories in the struggle against COVID-19. Beth Duff-Brown writes for Stanford Health Policy: Stanford Health Policy’s Jason Wang, MD, PhD, an associate professor of...
by CivMetrics Staff | Mar 5, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health
The open sharing of data on the internet and the quick collective response of scientists all over the globe have revolutionized the way we now contend with the threat of pandemics. Shelly Fan filed this report for Singularity Hub: A virus’s genetic blueprint is the...
by CivMetrics Staff | Feb 26, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health
The weather forecast is notoriously unreliable. But with the aid of better data sources and analytics, they have become much more accurate in the short term than they used to be. Epidemiologists who model the spread of flu face some of the same challenges. And...
by CivMetrics Staff | Feb 26, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health
Data-driven techniques and technologies help smart cities identify when and where outbreaks begin, model how the outbreaks would spread, and advise how outbreaks could be contained. Katie Pyzyk filed this report for smartcitiesdive.com: Analytics technology provides a...
