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Predicting pandemics with unconventional digital tools

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But the advent of COVID-19 is proving to be something of a coming of age for digital epidemiology, which has been putting data from disparate sources to global use for the last 15 years. Digital epidemiologists, he explained, think about how alternative, freely available data streams can “unwind the hierarchical information flow”.