TIMING IS EVERYTHING

"The speed at which we've developed an epidemiological understanding COVID-19 has thus far been unprecedented - in no small part due to the advances we've made in data availability between SARS 'Classic' in 2002 and H1N1 in 2009," says Dr. Maimuna Majumder, computationa...

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Published inMedical Marketing and Media pp. 4 - 7
Main Author Holoubek, Sara
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Haymarket Media, Inc 01.03.2021
Subjects
Algorithms
Coronaviruses
COVID-19 diagnostic tests
COVID-19 vaccines
Decision making
Disease transmission
Hospitals
Medical research
Medical supplies
Older people
Pandemics
Patients
Penicillin
Pneumonia
Public health
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Ventilators
United States > US
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Summary:"The speed at which we've developed an epidemiological understanding COVID-19 has thus far been unprecedented - in no small part due to the advances we've made in data availability between SARS 'Classic' in 2002 and H1N1 in 2009," says Dr. Maimuna Majumder, computational health informatics program faculty at Boston Children's Hospital and research associate at Harvard Medical School. More data points produce better models, which accelerate research. "Because this particular pandemic has far-reaching consequences around most of the globe, researchers have produced more scientific knowledge in a single year about this novel pathogen than we have during any previous epidemic," adds Majumder. Trained as an ER doctor, Ziad Obermeyer, Blue Cross of California distinguished associate professor at University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, came to know that humans often make mistakes. [...]older people were vaccinated, even if they had a low risk of exposure.
ISSN:0025-7354