# Community Seminar 2024-08-07 - Kaitlyn Johnson - Wastewater modeling to forecast hospital admissions in the US: Challenges and opportunities

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@seabbs I am curious which of these seem the highest priority/lowest lift and could represent a proof of concept/ test of the added value (or if you think thats silly and we have to do all of them at once).

For example, my instinct is that a shared interface for the inputs (so prior specification, delay distribution handling, and preprocessing) would be extremely helpful for evaluation/identifying which models work best in which contexts all else remaining equal.

@jamesazam will be following the issue to see what you all decide on!

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