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This is an audio long read from nature.

In this episode, is Precision Public Health the Future or a contradiction?

Written by Carrie Arnold and read by me, Benjamin Thompson.

From their offices in a high-rise building in Queens, epidemiologist Sharon Green and her colleagues watched the COVID-19 pandemic sweep through New York City in April 2020.

Using an open-source data analytics program called SATScan, her team mapped outbreaks as they unfolded across individual neighborhoods, almost in real time.

This sophisticated approach relied on detailed data from hospitals and laboratories

and showed that the virus wasn't affecting all New Yorkers equally. That knowledge helped Green's team

at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to distribute testing resources

and protective gear, such as masks and gloves, to the right places.

It was a different approach from New York City's typical pandemic response plan, which advised

largely blanket policies, such as lockdowns and mass testing. Instead of just parking a testing

van somewhere in an affected zip code, we can park it and an intersection in the middle of

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