By Amy Graff, SFGATE
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Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University have collaborated to track the spread of COVID-19 and projection surges in clients.
Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University have actually collaborated to track the spread of COVID-19 and projection rises in patients.
Picture: Facebook/ Carnegie Mellon.
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Photo: Facebook/ Carnegie Mellon.
Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University have teamed up to track the spread of COVID-19 and forecast rises in patients.
Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University have actually collaborated to track the spread of COVID-19 and projection surges in patients.
Picture: Facebook/ Carnegie Mellon.
Facebook has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to collect and track self-reported data from people throughout the nation experiencing COVID-19 signs.
When correlated with test-confirmed cases, the tool may assist forecast rises in patients and permit public health officials and doctor to better prepare, according to scientists who worked on the model.
” That’s a lot of the work that the health scientists at Carnegie Mellon have actually been doing to ensure the data that’s coming from the survey is high quality and that it correlates with what healthcare facilities are seeing on the ground,” Facebook CEO Zuckerberg described on ABC’s “Great Morning America” Monday.
Provided through an interactive map introduced Monday, the tool uses real-time quotes of the virus’ spread across the United States on a county level.
The survey is voluntary and researchers say they’re receiving about one million responses per week from Facebook users and have actually been balancing another 600,00 0 reactions daily through users of the Google Viewpoint Rewards and AdMob apps, according to a declaration from CMU.
The study results are kept confidential: “Facebook does not get, collect or save individual survey actions, and CMU doesn’t learn who took the survey,” Facebook states on the map site.
Zuckerberg informed ABC the data is already pointing to some breeding grounds for the infection.
” If you take a look at the maps, there are some things that I think would leap out to you– for example, that ski resorts may have been playing in an early role in the spread of COVID,” Zuckerberg stated. “We do see in the maps that a few of the counties around where there are popular ski resorts have a raised level of individuals experiencing signs, so there are things like that you can see.”
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Amy Graff is a digital editor with SFGATE. Email her: [email protected].
