BlueDot
A share from today's TechTO virtual lunch....Blue Dot. A Toronto tech company designed to locate, track and predict infectious disease spread. Their predictive ability comes from movements of travellers on commercial flights every year; human, animal and insect population data; climate data from satellites; and local information from journalists and healthcare workers, pouring through 100,000 online articles each day spanning 65 languages. Amazing and also a bit scary. They predicted Covid 19 in advance of the WHO announcement. See links. https://bluedot.global/