Healthweather.us tracks fevers across USA

rolltide · Mar 20, 2020

Kinsa make "smart thermometers" so when people check their temperature it's relayed to the Kinsa database and they track abnormal temperature readings.

Should be a good real-time source to see who's feeling poorly in which areas of the country

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current map shows Florida potentially in some real trouble

rolltide · Mar 20, 2020

Kinsa Health has sold or given away more than a million smart thermometers to households in which two million people reside, and thus can record fevers almost as soon as consumers experience them.For the last few years, Kinsa’s interactive maps have accurately predicted the spread of flu around the United States about two weeks before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s own surveillance tool, the weekly FluView tracker…Company scientists are uniquely positioned to identify unusual clusters of fever because they have years of data for expected flu cases in each ZIP code. A sudden spike that far exceeds estimates for flu for a given date may well indicate the coronavirus has arrived…

Kinsa stays ahead of the CDC because their thermometers relay temperature readings to the company instantly, where they’re automatically logged and aggregated geographically. By contrast, the CDC assembles its info about local outbreaks by aggregating data supplied piecemeal by local doctors and hospitals. According to the Times, Kinsa correctly detected the “double peak” of flu this year and has already apparently detected at least one cluster of coronavirus cases that was unknown at the time (in South Florida) but soon became evident to local authorities.

They’re now seeing unusual numbers of fevers for this time of year in certain spots in Florida, Michigan, Arizona and eastern Texas that aren’t — yet — known to be COVID-19 hotspots.

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Willie99 · Mar 20, 2020

rolltide said:
Kinsa make "smart thermometers" so when people check their temperature it's relayed to the Kinsa database and they track abnormal temperature readings.

Should be a good real-time source to see who's feeling poorly in which areas of the country

https://healthweather.us/

current map shows Florida potentially in some real trouble

Look at CA, something's messed up my friend

TimmyRules · Mar 20, 2020

Maybe invasion of privacy and not allowed to be sold there....:think2:

rolltide · Mar 20, 2020

Willie99 said:
Look at CA, something's messed up my friend

it just came online today so probably either bugging out or, because they're based in san fran, they made an agreement with the state to not show CA info. probably a bug that needs fixed

rolltide · Mar 30, 2020

good article on the Kinsa thermometers
https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-03...al-distancing-key-to-beating-coronavirus.html

Using this, the company has found evidence that shows that closing spaces where people tend to gather, such as restaurants and bars, helps decrease the rate of infections for such illnesses.

“Given that people aren’t interacting as much, now that I’m staying home, for example, if I’m sick, then people I’m usually around won’t be infected and then they’re not infecting other people,” stated Nita Nehru, head of communications at Kinsa Health, in an interview with the Daily Mail.

“That’s what we mean by breaking the chain of infections,” Nehru continued. “The less people are around one another, the more those illnesses drop.”One particular example of this is in Santa Clara County in California. The map shows that the incidence of flu-related illness in that county has dropped by 13 percent over the last seven days with the number of observed illnesses listed as “low.” Perhaps not coincidentally, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a shelter-in-place order over a week ago on Mark 17.