Tracking Pandemic Spread with Tech: COVID Near You

Tracking Pandemic Spread with Tech: COVID Near You | Crowdsourced Data & Public Health | GZERO World

As the conversation about curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic turns to contact tracing and surveillance tools, GZERO World with Ian Bremmer talks to epidemiologist John Brownstein, a Harvard professor and Chief Innovation Officer at Boston Children's Hospital, about the website he co-founded, covidnearyou.org.

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