Thanks NYT for alerting me to Google Flu Trends.
The bullet: they use internet searches for influenza-related topics to track annual influenza activity up to 2 weeks ahead of CDC. Brilliant.
This is going into ID Epi.
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Wow. Sounds cool and would have been handy back in the day!
What does Google not do? Interesting indeed..
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