Ontario is creating a new health data platform to help researchers, incl. modellers & province& #39;s world-leading AI scientists respond to pandemic

This sounds like what the researchers in the story I wrote below were calling for, although... https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/03/24/ai-scientists-are-mobilizing-to-combat-coronavirus-heres-how-the-provinces-are-holding-them-back.html">https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/...

I can think of a couple researchers I could phone rn who would jump for joy and a couple researchers I could phone rn who would have misgivings. Province says it& #39;s working with the privacy commissioner.

Definitely want a lot more info on this!

The data platform is called....wait for it.....PANTHR (Pandemic Threat Response) https://news.ontario.ca/mohltc/en/2020/04/province-developing-new-health-data-platform-to-help-defeat-covid-19.html?utm_source=ondemand&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=p">https://news.ontario.ca/mohltc/en...

Oh and @VectorInst is giving PANTHR 240 GPUs: https://vectorinstitute.ai/2020/04/12/vector-institute-to-support-provincial-efforts-against-covid-19-with-computing-infrastructure-and-data-science-expertise/">https://vectorinstitute.ai/2020/04/1...