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greyl

(22,990 posts)
1. Site gives inaccurate data to me, dependent upon browser java script permissions.
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 02:30 AM
Mar 2020

Results for multiple zipcodes look like this:

0 people on this site have reported COVID-19 symptoms
0 people on this site have reported taking a COVID-19 test


KY_EnviroGuy

(14,492 posts)
3. Thank you. Interesting idea and web site.
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 02:53 AM
Mar 2020
About CovidNearYou.org:

Created by epidemiologists and software developers at Harvard, Boston Children's Hospital and a group of volunteers from across the technology industry. Covid Near You uses crowdsourced data to visualize maps to help citizens and public health agencies identify current and potential hotspots for the recent pandemic coronavirus, COVID-19. The website is a sister tool of Flu Near You, created by Ending Pandemics and Boston Children's Hospital in 2012 and maintained by the Boston Children’s Hospital team.

Covid Near You relies on voluntary participation from the general public, asking you to take a few seconds to report if you or your family members have been healthy or sick.

We analyze thousands of reports and map them to generate local and national views of covid-like-illness, providing public health officials and researchers with real-time, anonymous information that could help end the COVID-19 pandemic, and prevent the next one from happening.


For anyone who couldn't get the link: https://www.covidnearyou.org/

Many more people need to participate. It only needs birth month/year, gender, zip code, symptoms yes/no and flu shot yes/no.

After entering my info, it shows four people having symptoms in my county area.

KY..........

emmaverybo

(8,144 posts)
4. Showed two people at my zip in my town as having symptoms, not confirmed. If it picks up
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 03:15 AM
Mar 2020

could be interesting but I wonder if real sick people or survivors are going to be hopping online to
report. They will be devastated, grieving.

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