Category: Big data

February 8, 2020

Data Transparency: the Key to Contain Coronavirus Pandemic?

Chinese’ 2020 Lunar New Year had been completely ruined. A virus-like SARS, MERS had brought a fast whirring economy to a halt, causing billions of dollars’ loss every day.  According to Chinese officials ’report on February 11, as of midnight on February 11, China ’s new coronavirus death toll rose to 1018. 43,099 cases were confirmed. (See the latest stats at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/).  Models predicting the total number of being infected (including those not confirmed) will be around 250,000 in the next couple of days. To make it worse, we now know that many of the human sufferings during the process could have been prevented or avoided. Here is the summary of the main “pain points”

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