The devasting effects of COVID-19 across the world, was the awakening call needed to finally determine that healthcare organizations, pharmaceutical companies and governments worldwide need to share big data information to work together to prevent future epidemics. Unfortunately, there are many things get in the way (Jia & Et al., 2020):

-budgetary cuts

-there are no finances to do the data gathering and analysis

-other more urgent priorities occur

-data is not always scientifically or accurately collected

-time constraints to big data gathering

-do not have technology to gather accurate and timely big data

Everyone: What are other reasons that big data information does not get collected in spite of the need to do so?