Crowdsourced predictions for emerging infectious diseases

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Crowdsourced predictions for emerging infectious diseases

As of June 22, 2022, 3413 cases of monkeypox from 50 countries have been confirmed

by WHO. Accurate and timely predictions on where and how fast monkeypox might spread

are crucial to control the outbreak, and these could be provided by crowdsourced data.

Such data were essential in characterising and predicting the spread of SARS-CoV-2

during the early stages of the pandemic. Given the promise they show for emerging

infectious diseases, have crowdsourced predictions for such diseases come of age?

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