One small idea can beat COVID-19 coronavirus through crowdsourcing: take your temperature once daily, and upload to takeyourtemp.org.
According to The New York Times, Kinsa Inc., a company that uses smart thermometers to predict the spread of the flu, says it is tracking the coronavirus in real time: “The thermometer data acts as an early warning system for illness spreading,” said Inder Singh, the company’s founder. “The CDC’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. “The problem with Kinsa is that there is a shortage of the smart thermometers, and they can only produce them so fast.
You can help. By taking your temperature every day and uploading to this website (anonymously), we can bypass the smart thermometer shortage issue and allow the dataset to grow as large as possible, making it ever more helpful. The growing collection of individual reported temperatures will allow researchers to identify hotspots at an accelerated rate and divert vital resources where they need to go. Several epidemiologists I reached out to for guidance have confirmed this kind of data would be “fantastic.”
Pledge to #TakeYourTemp once a day and immediately report your information on this website. Let’s show the world the power of a small idea. Help fight the coronavirus and take your life back. Repost and share this with your networks on every platform, every day until we can celebrate a victory against COVID-19 together, in person, across the world.
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- Houston, Tx 77005, Us
- Industry
- Non-Profit Organization Management
- Website
- takeyourtemp.org
- Keywords
- Portland.
- HQ
- Houston, TX
- Competitors
- WAAVE Technologies Inc., RegX.ai, WAAVE.
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Take Your Temp Pledge's website is takeyourtemp.org
Take Your Temp Pledge's LinkedIn profile is https://www.linkedin.com/company/take-your-temp
Take Your Temp Pledge's industry is
Non-profit Organization Management
Take Your Temp Pledge's categories are Non-profit Organization Management
Take Your Temp Pledge's founding year is 2020
