we have such a system. Voila:
Bluedot, a Toronto startup whose AI-driven health monitoring platform analyzes billions of data points. Launched in 2014, the venture alerted its clients to the outbreak on Dec. 31, well ahead of notifications from the World Health Organization and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention..
..Bluedot uses natural-language processing and machine-learning techniques to sift through global news reports, airline data, and reports of animal disease outbreaks, as described by Wired. Epidemiologists look over the automated results, and if everything checks out, the company sends alerts to its clients in the public and private sectors.
BlueDot tries to track and move information faster than the disease can travel. It correctly predicted where outside mainland China the Wuhan virus would land—Bangkok, Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo—after its initial appearance.
[don’t know why, but the wired article won’t come up for me]
https://qz.com/1791222/how-artificial-intelligence-provided-early-warning-of-wuhan-virus/
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-epidemiologist-wuhan-public-health-warnings/
It’s not about predicting where...it is about affected countries having a health system that can handle it. We are about to find that out. Two years ago, we didn’t. I doubt we have it today with the way democrats block anything Trump does...down to moving funds from Ebola to CornoVid-19.
Bluedot, huh. Veddy interesting.