{"667449":{"#nid":"667449","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Internet Search Data Can Help Predict a Looming \u2018Twindemic\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe most widely used source of medical advice in modern society might be the Google search box.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEnough people turn to the site with searches like \u201closs of taste\u201d or \u201chow long contagious\u201d that researchers at Georgia Tech can use that data to accurately predict looming waves of influenza-like illness and Covid-19 infections. Their forecasting models work for the nation overall and for each state, offering a new source of data about potential \u201ctwindemics\u201d that could burden healthcare systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe model, developed by Shihao Yang and his team in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, is published in the Nature journal \u003Cem\u003ECommunications Medicine\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/internet-search-data-can-help-predict-looming-twindemic\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full story on the College of Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EShihao Yang\u2019s model forecasts when spikes in Covid-19 and flu infections will strain hospitals and health care resources.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Shihao Yang\u2019s model forecasts when spikes in Covid-19 and flu infections will strain hospitals and health care resources."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2023-04-20 18:17:40","changed_gmt":"2023-04-28 16:09:38","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670594":{"id":"670594","type":"image","title":"Simin Ma and Shihao Yang","body":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student Simin Ma, left, and Shihao Yang, assistant professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. They developed a model that uses search data to predict coming waves of serious Covid-19 and flu cases that could burden healthcare resources. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1682014672","gmt_created":"2023-04-20 18:17:52","changed":"1682014672","gmt_changed":"2023-04-20 18:17:52","alt":"Ph.D student Simin Ma sits with Assistant Professor Shihao Yang at his desk. A computer monitor shows flu data and Google search trends that they used in their Covid and flu forecasting models.","file":{"fid":"253480","name":"Simin-Ma-Shihao-Yang-Covid-Flu-Forecasting-by-Candler-Hobbs-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/04\/20\/Simin-Ma-Shihao-Yang-Covid-Flu-Forecasting-by-Candler-Hobbs-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/04\/20\/Simin-Ma-Shihao-Yang-Covid-Flu-Forecasting-by-Candler-Hobbs-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":747006,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/04\/20\/Simin-Ma-Shihao-Yang-Covid-Flu-Forecasting-by-Candler-Hobbs-h.jpg?itok=_mRbuWB0"}}},"media_ids":["670594"],"groups":[{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"},{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"185603","name":"Shihao Yang"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}