CDC launches new service to forecast infectious diseases
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The CDC launched its Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics Tuesday as a means of improving national response to future health outbreaks.
The Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA) was created last summer with the goal to "advance the use of forecasting and outbreak analytics in public health decision making," per the initial press release. The CFA's work aims to ultimately improve the response to future outbreaks.
"The new center will meet a long-standing need for a national focal point to analyze data and forecast the trajectory of pandemics with the express goal of informing and improving decisions with the best available evidence," Marc Lipsitch, the team's director for science, said in the press release.
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