How Homeland Security’s Biosurveillance Arm Uses Tech To Track a Pandemic

NextGov: The Homeland Security Department’s National Biosurveillance Integration Center, or NBIC, is tapping into emerging and advanced technologies to help the government monitor and respond to the novel coronavirus.

Tasked with analyzing, integrating and dispensing critical data and information about health and disease events that pose threats to America, NBIC “began tracking an outbreak of unidentified viral pneumonia in Wuhan, China on January 2, providing early situational awareness on what we now know is COVID-19,” Kenneth Cuccinelli II, who is currently serving as DHS deputy secretary, told Congress in early March.

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