Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are using Twitter to track what has been a particularly severe flu season across the U.S. Since mid-December, hospitalizations and deaths caused by the flu have “risen steeply,” the CDC says. While the flu has declined in a few parts of the country, it’s still high nationally. Johns Hopkins computer scientists and researchers built a filter with statistical methods based on human language that culls tweets specifically about having the flu. Twitter offers a new way to get real-time influenza data, researchers say.”]
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