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 **This repository is in development.**
 
 This repository is designed to collect forecast data for the 2023-2024 RSV Forecast Hub run by Johns Hopkins University Infectious Disease Dynamics Group. This project collects forecasts for weekly new hospitalizations due to confirmed RSV. Anyone interested in using these data for additional research or publications is requested to contact ____ for information regarding attribution of the source forecasts.
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+# Nowcast and Forecasts of Confirmed RSV Hospitalizations Admissions During the 2023-2024 Season
+(background)
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+**How to Participate:**
+The RSV Forecast Hub is open to any team willing to provide projections at the right temporal and spatial scales. We only require that participating teams share point estimates and uncertainty bounds, along with a short model description and answers to a list of key questions about design. A major output of the forecast hub is ensemble estimates of the prediction targets.
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+Those interested in participating, please read the README file and email us at _________.
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+Model projections should be submitted via pull request to the model-output/ folder and associated metadata should be submitted at the same time to the m odel-metadata/ folder of this GitHub repository. 
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+**Dates:**
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+**Prediction Targets:**