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Interview: Alex Bentley on Using Widely Available Data to Predict Disease

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Researchers with the University of Tennessee used widely available demographic and socio-economic data to predict cases of COVID-19 in US counties. WUOT’s Chrissy Keuper spoke with Anthropology professor Alex Bentley about the research, which could eventually be used to predict the occurrence of any infectious disease.

 

The Research: 

 

Early warning of vulnerable counties in a pandemic using socio-economic variables 

and 

Cultural values predict national COVID-19 death rates