How to Enable Public Health by Innovation in Predictive Analytics — Part 2

Is there a way to let people know of a potential infection risk before even coming into contact with each other?

The bubonic plague is perhaps one of the best known pandemics that occurred in the year 1350 AD. Also named The Black Death. It was responsible for the death of over one-third of the world population. In 1817, the first wave of Cholera pandemics began that would continue for at-least 150 years. The first three waves alone is estimated to have killed at-least 15 million people, despite having developed a vaccine at the time.

And there are several more that occurred over the span of several centuries, with well-documented gory accounts that would turn you into a compulsive germaphobe if you knew the details!

Let’s talk about the present. The most popular topic of the year award goes to

You guessed it — Coronavirus. The fact that Tom Hanks is on this list mostly because the…