Partly Cloudy With A 75 Percent Chance Of COVID Exposure

Partly Cloudy With A 75 Percent Chance Of COVID Exposure It’s 6:30 a.m. and your third alarm is blaring. Another 10 minutes and you’ll have to miss breakfast before going to work. You get up, brush your teeth, shower … Betsy Ladyzhets FiveThirtyEight

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This is a hypothetical future, but one that a new team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working on. The Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics got an initial $200 million in funding from the American Rescue Plan to recruit data scientists, epidemiologists and science communicators who will come up with forecasts for the public and promote data-based decision-making. CFA aims to operate “like the National Weather Service, but for infectious diseases,” said epidemiologist Caitlin Rivers, the new center’s associate director for science, in an April article in The Washington Post...