I don't believe so.
There have been discussions about things like the use of synthetic mobility data. I do want to highlight that much of those types of approaches are actually using empirical location data as a training dataset. Secondarily, in a very stable environment, that might make sense, but keep in mind the last two years have been anything but stable—constantly changing conditions, new variants and new public health interventions and policies. This has been a very erratic two years, and empirical data are going to give us the best foresight into what is coming next so that we can make intelligent decisions about how to mitigate the health, economic and social consequences.
The last thing I would say is that BlueDot—and my work as a physician for the last 20 years—is about protecting lives but also protecting data privacy. This is something that we take very seriously and is really at the core of what we do as an organization and, candidly, why I founded BlueDot in the first place.