uses AI to scour more than 100,000 articles every day in 65 languages looking for news about more than 150 different diseases. Around 10 a.m. EST on Dec. 31, their system spotted an article in Chinese about a “pneumonia of unknown cause” with 27 cases.
“The cities up at the top of the list at highest risk were the first cities that received the coronavirus after it started to spread out of China, places like Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, Taipei and Macau, et cetera,” Dr.Khan said.BlueDot conducts surveillance of infectious diseases from official sources reported by government agencies, through the public health and healthcare community, online forums and world media, Dr. Khan explained.
“Once we think that the potential threat is legitimate we enter that into our platform and it automatically connects to the whole world’s air travel data,” said Dr. Khan, who also works as a professor of medicine and public health at the University of Toronto. “It was a profound event where I had a chance first hand to see a colleague of mine get SARS. Thankfully she survived,” Dr. Khan said.
The coronavirus has now infected more than 34,576 people globally and killed more than 722, almost all of them in China.
An American scientist in 2004 was involved in a search of SARS out break found cave full of bats that carried the virus for SARS and other coronavirus the bats by the way are hunted and eaten .The cave is within 50 km of the area of the outbreak
Corona Virus contains insertions, showing an artificially created Bioweapon. China's Biological Warfare Lab is located in Wuhan.
Going by CTV and the rest of the media, along with the WHO this is FEARMONGERING! So which is it CTV you for it or against it?
That's a great step forward but it doesn't sound as if anyone actually used it to defend against the virus.
Good for them! Only thing is, it's probably hard for media outlets to except such results off of a web site checking on media. To the media and WHO this would be considered FEARMONGERING!
This is fascinating
Define : data mine What else is it looking for?
Um ya sure
I would be surprised if that were not the case.
It's not really shocking that officials are slow and useless just saying.
Just like the ecig/Marijuana industry knew about the vitamin E acetate in the tainted THC carts causing all the lung issues and started warning people about it months before the CDC and health orgs. Here is a warning in my window. Look at what the count was at. Why so long?
If the company was based in China it would have been shuttered and the employees jailed for spreading false information. As what happen to that brave doctor in China who just passed away from the virus.
Sure they did. And what did they do with that visionary expertise?