Opinion

How digital data collection can help track covid-19 cases in real time

Eric Topol, a cardiologist and geneticist, is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute. Find him on Twitter @erictopol.

Just as a downturn of confirmed cases of covid-19 and related hospitalizations is being seen in New York, there are increasing signs of new outbreaks in Philadelphia, Baltimore and the District of Columbia. That’s a foreshadowing of the challenges for gaining control of the pandemic.