Current crisis will be a transformative big data event. We already know more about transmission of the disease than ever, thanks to online publication of the https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦠" title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe"> genetic make-up and actions that followed 1/6: #utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=covid-19">https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/covid-19-how-unprecedented-data-sharing-has-led-faster-ever-outbreak-research.html #utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=covid-19">https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/c...

We should now fight it with 21st century methods, as Prof Hunter points out in @guardian: for example, patients’ risk-factor information could be linked faster with #COVID19 outcome data, protecting the most vulnerable 2/6: https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/we-are-fighting-a-21st-century-disease-with-20th-century-weapons?__twitter_impression=true">https://amp.theguardian.com/world/202...

The next crucial battle is over contact tracing which must be a priority but is very resource intensive, as @ECDC_EU explains 3/6: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/Public-health-management-persons-contact-novel-coronavirus-cases-2020-03-31.pdf">https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/def...

Traditional, manual methods of contact tracing “are not fast enough for SARS-CoV-2”: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/30/science.abb6936">https://science.sciencemag.org/content/e... but digital means, with quarantining, can help contain new outbreaks if about 60% of public uses them 4/6: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/30/science.abb6936.full">https://science.sciencemag.org/content/e...

Ethical and privacy considerations are key and the way forward is to “guarantee and assure an individual’s complete control over disclosure, and use of data in the way that protects individual rights”. 5/6: https://ethics.harvard.edu/outpacing-virus ">https://ethics.harvard.edu/outpacing...

If applied wisely in this crisis, wide-scale data management will move the needle in human-centric technological development 6/6.