To save lives: Lessons of a pandemic cartographer

IF 3.3 1区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY
John Hessler
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Abstract

For almost everyone in the world, the last few years have been unlike any experienced in their lifetimes. The public health crisis, spawned by the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus and the outbreak of COVID‐19, presented a geospatial analysis challenge like none other as public health officials, emergency rooms, and the general public struggled to track the spread of the disease, allocate resources for testing and care, and understand the origin of this new zoonotic pathogen. During this period, the combination of rapid and open access genomic data combined with case counts and the mapping tools of geographic information systems allowed for near real‐time tracking of the pandemic. This paper describes these tools, how they were used to advise policy‐makers in the US at the height of the pandemic, and some of the lessons learned.
拯救生命大流行病制图师的经验教训
对世界上几乎所有人来说,过去几年都是他们有生以来从未经历过的。由 SARS-CoV-2 病毒和 COVID-19 爆发引发的公共卫生危机带来了前所未有的地理空间分析挑战,公共卫生官员、急诊室和公众都在努力追踪疾病的传播、分配检测和护理资源,并了解这种新的人畜共患病原体的来源。在此期间,快速、开放的基因组数据与病例计数以及地理信息系统的绘图工具相结合,使人们能够近乎实时地追踪疫情。本文介绍了这些工具、如何在大流行高峰期利用它们为美国的政策制定者提供建议,以及一些经验教训。
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9.10%
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期刊介绍: Transactions is one of the foremost international journals of geographical research. It publishes the very best scholarship from around the world and across the whole spectrum of research in the discipline. In particular, the distinctive role of the journal is to: • Publish "landmark· articles that make a major theoretical, conceptual or empirical contribution to the advancement of geography as an academic discipline. • Stimulate and shape research agendas in human and physical geography. • Publish articles, "Boundary crossing" essays and commentaries that are international and interdisciplinary in their scope and content.
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