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there is no mandatory reporting to the CDC

Why the CDC though? Should this not be 100% handled by the WHO? And related to that, do you have any thoughts on the trials started so far by the WHO?

On a more vague note, in the UK Ben Goldacre has been very vocal in the past about the AllTrials campaign - are you aware if he, or others related to the AllTrials campaign, are doing things similar to what you've done with the aitia app?

Keep up the good work, this is so much more important than most people realise!!!

a machine learning algorithm, by definition, cannot produce a non-obvious invention?

In no way does this follow by definition.

The whole concept of machine learning is iterating variations of previously developed concepts.

This is a very inaccurate description of what machine learning is (never mind the fact that AI and machine learning are not synonymous).

The point of machine learning is generally to estimate functions that describe some interesting aspect of a data set. If the algorithm learns, by whatever means, a highly complex and non-trivial function, then it may well be that it spits out entirely novel results.