DESCRIPTION

Policymakers, healthcare workers, businesses, and the general public lack effective, accurate, and precise ways to monitor the status of COVID-19 in their jurisdictions and communities. This problem exists up and down the crisis management continuum, from prevention to response, to recovery. Governments lack the ability to detect emerging outbreaks, monitor and surveill existing outbreaks, collaborate with other governments and stakeholders to address and surveill outbreaks, and make evidence-informed decisions about when outbreaks are no longer a threat.