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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Carla K. Johnson | AP

Aiming to predict COVID, future pandemics better, CDC opens infectious diseases forecasting center

A new U.S. government center aims to become the National Weather Service for infectious diseases — an early warning system to help guide the response to COVID-19 and future pandemics.

Leaders of the new Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics say predicting the course of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States has been hampered by problems with data collection.

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