Surveillance technology that currently exists in the world is about five decades old. In pandemics, it can take at most measure the caseload as per new and cumulative death and infections. They are not much adept at identifying significant shifts in pandemics and also cannot raise the alarm over concerning acceleration of disease transmission reflecting the shifts in the outbreak. This will put the world in a very disadvantageous position, especially due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and there is a dire need for the advancement of Surveillance technology.
Looking at this problem, a research team has brought forward the world’s first global surveillance system that will be rolled out soon in 15 countries, including America. The latest technology comes at a crucial time and would probably take the Infection Surveillance Solution Market to the next level. This is because the system developed has the ability to dynamically track where the virus is at present. Moreover, it can also judge how fast it will arrive and if its speed is accelerating.
The researchers stated that the system would empower world governments to identify outbreaks while they are at their initial stage. The leaders would thus be aware of the occurrence of the outbreak before it arrives in places such as overcrowded hospitals and morgues. The systems available today are static and were largely lacking in this sector.
Northwestern will make the new COVID tracking system available to the population in general. It will not only consist of the new metrics but also the traditional ones. Each country would have a personal dashboard that would be monitored by the U.S. embassy around the globe so that policy leaders could be informed in a timely manner. After this, users would have surveillance everywhere.
The team specified that the new app would help analyze the virus similar to the way the economic field measures the expansion and contraction of any economy. Such methods are tried and tested; however, the novelty is that now they would be applied to a disease surveillance system. Further, researchers revealed that models and metrics have been duly validated for medical surveillance and published thereafter.
U.S embassies and missions support partnering countries would have their work cut down once the new system is rolled out. They would be able to formulate and implement policies on the basis of true knowledge that can mitigate COVID-19 effects or other adverse outcomes like food insecurity. They would also be adept at knowing which policies are actually working against the pandemic.
The research team revealed that they separated all the dynamic characteristics of the pandemic. As pandemic moves around and change, they are much harder to follow. However, now it might actually be possible to accomplish this insurmountable task so that public health leaders are informed about significant shifts in the pandemic.