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Data Reveals the True Impact of the Coronavirus Outbreak

March 22, 2020March 22, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, COVID-19, Data, Wired UK

Something was wrong with Malaysia’s internet. It was March 13, and the more Simon Angus looked at the data, the more he suspected that the country might be in the midst of a Wired UK This story originally appeared on asked Netflix to restrict high-definition streaming until the emergency is over.) Now, Angus’ scanning had detected that Malaysia’s internet had become allowed a religious mass gathering to go ahead in Kuala Lumpur. Once Covid-19 cases linked to the event started to emerge, the government scrambled to find all the attendees,…

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An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus

January 26, 2020January 26, 2020 NewsEditorartificial intelligence, Data, epidemiology, public health, viruses

On January 9, the World Health Organization notified the public of a flu-like outbreak in China: a cluster of pneumonia cases had been reported in Wuhan, possibly from vendors’ exposure to live animals at the Huanan Seafood Market. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had gotten the word out a few days earlier, on January 6. But a Canadian health monitoring platform had beaten them both to the punch, sending word of the outbreak to its customers on December 31. Related Stories Snakes?! The Slippery Truth of a…