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I wonder if an app can be built, so that when above normal people are dying in a place a well funded international team can be dispatched to figure out the issue as soon as possible.

So that we are able to contain mysterious virus and other such outbreaks.

Why wait till more people lose their life?

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It's the status quo, it happens all the time. There's no money in it, and many people are actively hostile to the idea of saving foreign lives if it involves any cost to them as taxpayers at all.

This sounds like it would be happening in places that wouldn't necessarily have smart phones, or possibly not even have cell coverage. Not to completely dismiss your app idea, but it doesn't sound like it would be feasible in a lot of the places where this sort of thing is happening.

Seems like the trickier part here is the “well funded international team.” Classic HN to think another app is the secret sauce to solving this problem.

Who determines what above normal means, and who is preventing people to game the system? And who is funding the dispatch team?

Alot of people are dying right now, and the funding situation for aid is depressingly bad. An app isnt going to solve these issues, funding and geopolitics are a much bigger factor

99% of cases will have an obvious cause of death.

How does the app know that you are dead ?

You have to check in every ten minutes or else you're presumed dead. Easy.

Facebook integration?

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