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 Posted: Tue, Mar 24 2020, 1:59 pm EDT Post subject: New website: COVID Near You |
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https://covidnearyou.org
As CNBC points out, the volunteer team of about thirty people built the website, but relies on content from expert sources. The goal is to attract at least 100,000 users to log their current health in order to better populate a heat map.
Users can visit the website and fill out a short form asking for symptoms, age, and if they had taken a flu vaccine. This may provide a better picture of the spread of COVID-19, since testing is sparse across the country at this time, and typically only checking those with symptoms.
The website will continue to receive updates and provide data directly from experts going forward. The volunteers are working on the project in the evenings and their time off, separately from time spent at their day jobs. |
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