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"despite over 80,000 infections worldwide (most of them in China), the world still doesn’t have a clear picture of some of the most basic information about this outbreak."

nytimes.com/2020/02/28/opi… #pathogen #management #bigdata #DataAnalytics
1/ "In recent days the #WHO has complained that China has not been sharing #data on infections in health care workers. Earlier this month, the editors of the journal #Nature called on researchers to 'ensure that their work on this outbreak is shared rapidly and openly.'”
2/ "the lack of consistent, reliable & regularly updated #information on the key measures of this outbreak is startling. In an era when we get flash-flood warnings on phones & weekly influenza #statistics from every state, why is #data on the new #coronavirus so limited?"
3/ "It began early in the course of the epidemic. On Dec. 30, a Chinese doctor, #LiWenliang posted about a small number of people with an unusual pneumonia on social media."
4/ "Though scientists in labs were already sequencing the virus, he was 'warned and reprimanded' by local officials for rumor-mongering and the 'illegal activity of publishing false information online.' (Dr. Li later died of the illness.)"
5/ “'Early on, #management was less than optimal in #Hubei & they’re paying for that now,' Dr. Ian Lipkin, a professor of #epidemiology at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health who has been working in #China & advising the Chinese govt since the #SARS outbreak, told me."
6/ "Scientists in various countries are presumably gathering large amounts of #data day by day and the world deserves to see more of it."
7/ "To gauge the actual death rate of #Covid19, researchers would need to know how many people actually have it, even if they have only mild symptoms. In-country #surveillance may reveal a very large pool of people with mild or no symptoms at all."
8/ "Dr. Lipkin noted that because cases noted early in an #epidemic are the most severe, early #mortality estimates tend to be high. As more information comes out, the death rates are likely to fall."
9/ “'We’re probably six months out from having a good picture and when we do I’d guess the mortality will drop dramatically,' he said."
10/ "travel and commerce between China and the rest of the world has increased manifold. The spread of information about emerging #infectiousdiseases needs to keep up with that new reality."
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