"Cameron Khan is an infectious disease physician in Toronto. His company, BlueDot, was among the first to flag the virus in China that became the covid pandemic."
Is that so.
“We use the internet as a medium for surveillance to detect early signals of outbreaks anywhere in the world before they’re officially reported by public health agencies"
"BlueDot’s intelligence platform combines a computer’s ability to understand human language, known as natural language understanding (NLU), and machine learning, a form of AI that imitates humans’ ability to learn and gradually become more accurate. The platform sorts through massive volumes of online information— ranging from news reports, social media sites, government websites, and more — from around the globe, in over 130 languages, every 15 minutes of every day."
@DavidPS skimmed it but seems they took safety parameters as a given and pretty much took it from there rather than investigating individual effects. But maybe I need to read it more carefully.
At least sounds like the animals in Vienna are subjected to the less invasive transmitters than their American counterparts. Thanks
I can see no reason for the vast majority of people to suffer because fatcats fuelled another gartner hype cycle. So I can only assume he's addressing the room appropriately.
Awaiting instructions from Vox journalists to be worried.
"Typically a duck, goose or other natural host shows no symptoms but can spread the virus through droppings, saliva or mucus. When an infected bird comes in contact with poultry is when we start to see disease and this is usually categorised in one of two ways. The first is low pathogenicity, which shows very little sign of illness. Maybe a chicken will lay less eggs or stop laying eggs altogether. The second is high pathogenicity, which is incredibly infectious and can result in a 100% death rate. You can guess which one we're currently dealing with. When either version of avian flu turns up on poultry farms, it has devastating effects. Farmers are often forced to cull all animals to prevent further spread."
Something about this makes no sense to me at all. It sounds pretty stressful for a farmer though. Particularly one who's maintaining batteries to hit production targets for a supply chain on a shoestring margin.
Maybe phdGPT can help me understand the conventional wisdom.
