by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 25, 2020 | Modelpedia, Uncategorized
For many hospitals, exceeding resources due to high volumes of COVID-19 is not a matter of if, but when. A model from the University of Pennsylvania is helping hospitals predict how close that when might be. [See the app here.] [Github here.] From STAT: CHIME...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 25, 2020 | Modelpedia, Uncategorized
A team from the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has designed an app to explore how many COVID-19 cases may exist in areas without widespread testing. The app lets users adjust various parameters, which are then...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 25, 2020 | Modelpedia, Uncategorized
A new forecast this week goes against the conventional wisdom that many countries are facing a long, painful recovery from COVID-19. The forecast from Michael Levitt, a Stanford biophysicist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013, focuses on the number of...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 20, 2020 | Modelpedia, Uncategorized
A recent report from the Imperial College of London modeled three scenarios for how the COVID-19 pandemic could unfold. The model’s results showcase starkly different outcomes the United States, and the world, could face depending on how officials react to the...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 11, 2020 | Health and Privacy, Uncategorized
X-Rays, MRIs, and CT scans of millions of U.S. patients are left unprotected by even a modicum of security on publicly accessible servers, according to an investigation conducted by ProPublica. Jack Gillum, Jeff Kao and Jeff Larson reported on lack of security for...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 13, 2018 | Nonprofit Management, Uncategorized
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots are taking over our world. If you’ve been online in the past 12 months, you’ve probably seen them: innocuous little boxes that inquire as to whether you need any help or have any questions about a product or...
