It’s been nearly three years since the pandemic that took millions of lives officially ended, but Northeastern University network scientist Alessandro Vespignani and his team are not letting their forecasting tools gather dust.
When COVID-19 caught the world off guard in early 2020, the Northeastern scientists developed transmission models that predicted pandemic levels of disease by March of that year.
Now they have created post-pandemic datasets and maps of what Vespignani called the first study of how Americans interact and move in the post-COVID era. It comes with a mobility platform that serves as a real-time dashboard on population movement, as well as software — called Epydemix — that allows scientists and public health experts to plug in their own data to compare disease transmission modeling scenarios.
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