With widespread testing still not a reality, a new phone app aims to help epidemiologists track COVID-19 symptoms across the United States in real time.
Called the"COVID Symptom Tracker," the nonprofit app has a number of objectives. One is to quickly identify hotspots that could benefit from a rapid deployment of medical supplies or lockdowns.
"We are trying to make up for our inability to widely test for COVID across the population," explained lead researcher Dr. Andrew Chan, an associate professor in the department of medicine at Harvard Medical School. The U.S. effort has also paired up with the research funding organization"Stand Up to Cancer." Cancer patients -- and perhaps even cancer survivors -- are believed to be at increased risk for COVID-19.Signing up involves providing some basic health information and takes about three to four minutes, Chan said. After that, users are asked to spend about a minute per day registering updates, whether or not they have symptoms.
But privacy concerns could very well be a deal breaker for many Americans, cautioned Chunhuei Chi, director of the Center for Global Health at Oregon State University. So it could be that"a substantial proportion of the American population may be uncomfortable with sharing such intimate health and behavior information via an app," Chi noted.
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