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by kvs 5721 days ago
One of the reasons CDC can't predict as quickly as Google can is because it takes weeks for data "from thousands of regional hospitals, etc." to get to CDC.
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Not only that, but hospitals have to wait for confirmed laboratory test results before they report then to the CDC. That kind of reporting is certainly not done in real time.
Not to mention that there are more top-notch data engineers in a Google cafeteria at any given moment, than there are in the entire CDC payroll.