99% Invisible

489- Pandemic Tracking and the Future of Data

99% Invisible ›

58:25 | May 4th, 2022

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Data is the lifeblood of public health, and has been since the beginning of the field. We take a look at data gathering in regards to public health from the 1600s to today and how it might change in t...Show More



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epekilis recommended:Jun 25th, 2022

The US government was relying (uncredited) on a grass-roots volunteer initiative’s COVID statistics about the number of cases because they literally didn’t have the linked systems and staffing to do it themselves. This is an ode to the importance of interoperability, cooperative data sharing and th...Show More

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