The richness of information straight from the source is one of the advantages of using social media as early signal detector.
31.12.2024 03:32
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The richness of information straight from the source is one of the advantages of using social media as early signal detector.
I don’t remember in seeing digital disease detection protocols adopting Nextdoor as a data source. Actually it’s been a while I didn’t hear disease rumors detection using the plethora of social media available nowadays (e.g. Ring, Instagram, Quora, TikTok…).
CA governor Newsom declares state emergency related to H5N1. This is a measured & proactive step allowing greater coordination & resources to flow into an evolving situation affecting growing number of farms resulting in greater number of sporadic human infections.
www.gov.ca.gov/2024/12/18/g...
Breaking News: California declared a state of emergency over a bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle. The virus has been detected in 645 herds.
Ending Pandemics Academy is ramping up! Today at Salesforce Tower we hosted an event for donors that will be joining efforts for this upcoming journey.
I’m wondering why not using participatory surveillance data and HCW verification reports (e.g. Epicore) as additional layers for these novel data sources. I believe they offer unprecedented inputs especially by serving as community-based and event-based surveillance approaches.
A National Weather Service for disease?
Nice story on the Insight Net initiative on forecasting and outbreak analytics
harvardpublichealth.org/policy-pract...
California Department of Public Health investigating a possible bird flu case in a child who has had mild respiratory symptoms and is recovering at home. Children from a daycare setting also being tested as a preventive step, although no evidence of additional spread
www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA...
The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/
Movano Health’s EvieMED Ring receives FDA clearance for SpO2 monitoring
Clinical-grade device tracking sleep, activity, temperature, calories, and respiration rate.
Used in Long COVID and Lyme disease trials.
More: www.mobihealthnews.com/news/movano-...
can’t wait to see this maturity level of Bluesky memes as seen in the good old days of twitter.
though I’m a bit late, it seems posts here are (still) more signal than noise.
