Show HN: Stop Covid-19 by taking your temperature
takeyourtemp.org
takeyourtemp.org
The other one to watch is Michigan. There the "data quality grade" from covidtracking is a D.
I'm no good at writing copy, but I'd work on the homepage's phrasing. Link to https://healthweather.us/ as well as the NYT article on them, rather than making a reference to Maddow elsewhere (it'd be dumb for someone to be turned away by that, but someone will be.) Explain that CDC data lags three weeks behind historically, and point out all the counties without data. Say all this on the front page, and run A/B tests once you have enough visitors.
Again, great work!
I was just able to enter a US Zip code and normal temperature 98.6 without any verification. The site doesn't even check for location. I was able to enter data for a "US citizen" from Europe. Then clear cookies and do it again.
Verification of data is a huge thing if you want to make any kind of decision based on that data.
The first one says
This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.
The second one has a sample size of less than thousand people and concludes "Self-diagnosis does not accurately predict influenza seropositivity"
The third one is the only one that has a good set of data in terms of sample size ( 50+ Million ) but concludes "Symptom checkers had deficits in both triage and diagnosis" and that said I have no idea if those websites need some kind of verification as well, so if not someone who's bored could have just added bogus data to that as well.
I am not sure what's your point.
Why is this US centric?
You have to go 2 or 3 weeks, without any new reported infections to be sure.
This would require that all the countries and governments of the world, act in unison, to ensure that all 7 billion people are tracked, and monitored.
But the reality is, good luck, as this will never happen. The economic cost is too high, but the alternative, is that the COVID-19 virus will hunt down the human race.