Reply to Ekström and Ottersen: Real-time access to data during outbreaks is a key to avoid a local epidemic becoming a global pandemic

Affiliations

• ¹ Center for Pandemics and One Health Research, Sustainable Health Unit (SUSTAINIT), Faculty of Medicine, Oslo 0316, Norway.
• ² Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo 0316, Norway.
• ³ Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
• ⁴ Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo 0316, Norway.
• ⁵ Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00560, Finland.
• ⁶ Department of Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309.
• ⁷ Division of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China.
• ⁸ Department of Biology, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.
• ⁹ Deputy Under Secretary, Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office, US Department of Energy, Washington, DC 20585.
• ¹⁰ Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Pathogen Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
• ¹¹ Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom.
• ¹² Big Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford 0X37LF, United Kingdom.
• ¹³ Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Urban Systems Institute, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China.
• ¹⁴ Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
• ¹⁵ The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.