I'm looking for some survey form system that allows me to take a tablet somewhere without internet access, fill the form, and then the system syncs the answers to the backend when the tablet regains Internet access.
I know Redcap does it, but I was thinking of something more open?
'Altogether, the new database — the Canadian Notifiable Disease Incidence Dataset, or “CANDID” — contains more than a million infectious disease incidence counts that date back as far as 1903.'
You’ve Been Lied to About Rats and the Black Death
Recent research suggests that rats may not have played a critical role in the spread of plague. What can that tell us about outbreak narratives and their importance?
The State Health Department rat gang were a valuable asset in the fight against the Plague in Queensland from 1900 to 1909.
The image captures a group of around a dozen men standing in a line, each dressed in period attire—suits, vests, and wide-brimmed hats—while holding leashes of alert and active terriers, a breed commonly used for their prowess in rat hunting.
The dogs and their handlers were vital assets in the fight against plague-carrying rats in urban centers like Brisbane.
Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks by Caitlin Rivers, PhD, 2024
A fascinating window into the secret life of epidemiology, weaving together stories of triumph and tragedy, with a boots-on-the-ground perspective on how we can avert the next public health crisis.
A propulsive nonfiction look at the elite squads of scientists, doctors, and infectious disease experts who guard the boundary between public health and pandemics and how they gather data via boots on the ground "shoe-leather epidemiology" in order to save lives.
Extremely Fascinating…
🧐 I don’t know how I missed this but as soon as I find my sync, and get some watching done I may have to spend some time learning about this.
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Loved this with Sean Carrol and Brian Greene, World Science Festival.Kind of Blew my mind.I have been trying to keep up with Sean’s guests on mindscape. I haven’t been disappointed since September which is rare.