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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan Smart Thermometers Track the Spread of the Coronavirus?
"A company that makes internet-connected thermometers has followed the flu more closely than the C.D.C. can. Now the devices may be turning up cases of Covid-19."
"The thermometer data acts as an early warning system for illness spreading, said Inder Singh, the companys founder. The C.D.C.s system lags because it relies on weekly reports from hundreds of doctors offices and hospital emergency rooms about what symptoms they are seeing in patients."
"Just last Saturday, Kinsas data indicated an unusual rise in fevers in South Florida, even though it was not known to be a Covid-19 epicenter. Within days, testing showed that South Florida had indeed become an epicenter."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/health/coronavirus-fever-
thermometers.html
Go to this link for the map...
https://healthweather.us/
"The map shows two key data points: (1) the illness levels were currently observing, and (2) the degree to which those levels are higher than the typical levels we expect to see at this point in the flu season. (Details on how we calculate this are available in our technical approach document.) We believe this latter data point which were calling atypical illness, may in some cases be connected to the COVID-19 pandemic."
This was just reported on the Rachel Maddow Show.
drray23
(7,633 posts)You can see that map. Click atypical and it will show what it thinks is not flu, i.e covid.
You can enter your zip and check it out.
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)I just added the link to the post.
getagrip_already
(14,764 posts)And of course state health officials are locking down any info on current cases......
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)Why isn't this state on lock down? What about the Spring Breakers?
Lock down the country NOW!
getagrip_already
(14,764 posts)Thinking the headaches and fever are just a hangover. I'm sure there will be lots of family get together's since they are home from school.
precious darlings.
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)don't have the sense they were born with, neither does whoever supported those trips to FL. Morons deserve to get their Karma, unfortunately the rest of us will suffer due to their selfishness.
getagrip_already
(14,764 posts)Kids were sent home and are expected to do distance learning for the remainder of the term....
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)about staying in school. They need to smarten up but you don't get common sense from school/college. That is what they are lacking.
crickets
(25,981 posts)MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)But we also had abysmal testing and people who traveled while infected from Italy. And if you run the time lapse on the site you can see it blow up in December and again in February.
Its probably running rampant. And now that there is testing, the numbers are climbing.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)I think I will do it tomorrow.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)then I googled it and posted the info I got. Cool thermometer and tracking system!