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55: Detecting Disease Outbreaks from Internet Traffic | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

The After On Podcast

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The Problem of False Positives in Public Health

If we had an observatory, if you will, of public health symptoms, really robust ones set up, filtering out the noise and protecting privacy and combining data sources. Sometimes, just by chance, a cluster of symptoms are going to be searched in one particular city in one particular time period. The false positive issue's a big one. It may be not infrequent.

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