2014-08-06

Near real-time tracking of Ebola

If you want to see just how Ebola is spreading (and soon regressing?) , this article provides the view and insight of how it’s done. Ten years ago, these data would percolate slowly, compiled by public health authorities and eventually appear in an academic or lay publication Now through the foundations of computational epidemiology established by Dr. Brownstein, we are able to directly monitor this in-progress disaster. Now that we have a good afferent circuit, let’s see hope the efferent circuit is even more robust.