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Anthropic: The Situation Report
Since May, health workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have tracked nearly 8,000 Bundibugyo Ebolavirus cases, with a mortality rate close to 50%. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, WHO AFRO, and INRB now employ Claude AI to extract case and lab data from district PowerPoint decks, reducing sitrep compilation from a full day to under an hour. This speed enables multiple disease-model forecasts, informing logistics decisions such as optimal locations for treatment centers.