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The challenge to building a screening app is that there is no universal screening criteria (more on this in a bit). Moreover, the criteria has been changing by the day. For this MV…

Yes - all over the place. That was the biggest challenge: sourcing and validating the data. It's also why this is and will continue to be a work in progress: the situation on the g…

Short answer: they have all been bottlenecks thus far. In fact, that's a big reason why testing hasn't improved as rapidly as everyone hoped it would. The biggest bottleneck now is…

Yes - Houston data will be coming soon. It took extra effort to figure out how testing was being coordinated among the TMC hospitals and their community-based partners. Stay tuned …

Appreciate the slow clap - would love your help. See Andrew's note to learn about ways to help.

Also want to share that you're not imagining things: best we can tell, those living in Georgia have very few options beyond their health department. Even Emory is limited in its ca…

We were careful not to assume that all public health departments would engage in testing. We manually verified the information, and for those public health agencies that explicitly…

Well put. We’re working on the testing site locator right now. We’ve gathered contact info for 3500+ public health agencies, plus starting to add info for urgent care facilities, h…

Not being intimately familiar with the limitations of Kalman filters, how susceptible to bias is this approach when hidden states exist? In the case of COVID-19, the asymptomatic c…

This reminds me of the time I spent at the NIH conducting research on cancer vaccines. After lots of trial and error, I had finally found something that seemed to prevent lung canc…

I want to help. I had posted something here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22577611 But will support any effort so long as we get it done. I can help from the medical and th…

> That seems like a harder problem because of patient privacy issues. Agreed, but even a simple honor system would be better than the current situation. Perhaps verified via a simp…

I posted the call to action here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22577611 There was a word limit, so I had to comment on my own post to share full details. Sorry, not sorry H…

If we break down the challenge, we can start having an immediate impact. Here’s how: - Now: there's an immediate need for a single source of truth for all the locations where COVID…

Many communities around the world are finding themselves in dire need of trained medical professionals and first-responders to deal with an influx of critically ill COVID-19 patien…

Sweet. Looked into the KWA's site, seems like a clear use-case. If we were to break down the build into achievable chunks we may have more success, and have a bigger impact along t…

Have you considered the Almond integration for Home Assistant? ( https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/almond/ ) Alternatively, you could just fork the Almond project directly…

You raise a related issue, which is critical to address as well. That is, we need people to help manage patients before, during, and after their hospital stay. I’m less concerned a…

As an anesthesiologist and hacker, I love the enthusiasm here. I’m less concerned about the hospital use-case. It would be helpful to crowdsource solutions to address the need for …

Anesthesiologist here: yes and no. It depends on whether the patient is having difficulty clearing CO2, in which case ventilation is more important. If the patient’s lungs are unab…

Anesthesiologist here - sedation is ideal for managing patients in respiratory failure, though volatile anesthesia is not commonly used in an ICU setting (at least not in the US). …

Anesthesiologist here - true, I was a Stanford medical student on an ICU rotation when a Tesla employee crashed his plane into high voltage power lines while attempting to land at …