Making Sense of Medical Science (MSMS)

A medical scientist explains medical news for lay people

Last Sunday, 60 minutes featured an episode about the super-early detection of the pandemic by a Canadian company. They used anonymized cell phone data and artificial intelligence (AI) to track travel from Wuhan and around the world shortly after the virus was reported. Based on this information, they correctly identified future COVID-19 hot spots around the world. This seems to portend a new type of epidemiology and disease tracking. You can view the short video here:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-outbreak-computer-algorithm-artificial-intelligence/

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