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NIST develops “encounter metrics” to slow down or prevent future pandemics – News-Medical.Net
When you bump into someone in the workplace or at your local coffee shop, you might call that an “encounter.” That’s the scientific term for it, too.
When you bump into someone in the workplace or at your local coffee shop, you might call that an “encounter.” That’s the scientific term for it, too.
As part of urgent efforts to fight COVID-19, science is rapidly developing for measuring the number of encounters and the different levels of interaction in a group.
At the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), researchers are applying that science to a concept they have created called “encounter metrics.”
They have developed an encrypted…
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