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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. We are ingesting hundreds of thousands of pieces of information daily and we tag that information across locations, disease types, species, and case counts.