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Carson here, site developer. Thank you for the positive response so far, but also feel free to leave us constructive criticism. If you want to contribute to this effort, the GitHub is https://github.com/carsonbaker/takeyourtemp . We're working on it with frenetic energy.
Why is this US centric?
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.
I really want to call upon any engineers/managers at Apple/Google/Garmin/Fitbit: please start working on body temperature monitoring. It doesn't have to be a realtime readout like a heart monitor, but something that could work overnight to find an average. This could stop entire pandemics.
Kinsa is doing a lot of this already. Check https://healthweather.us/ for their published maps.
The usefulness instantly clicked when I saw this - awesome work, and I wish it were government promoted. 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 his…
What? Mind = Blown
You can't be this stupid.
May I ask how is any of the data you collect of any use if there is zero verification that said data is from actual people with symptoms? 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 ma…
May I ask how is any of the data you collect of any use if there is zero verification that said data is from actual people with symptoms? 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 ma…
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.19.20038844v... https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/1/2/e000234 https://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3480.full
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.
The usefulness instantly clicked when I saw this - awesome work, and I wish it were government promoted. 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 his…
"The usefulness instantly clicked when I saw this - awesome work, and I wish it were government promoted." What? Mind = Blown You can't be this stupid.
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"The usefulness instantly clicked when I saw this - awesome work, and I wish it were government promoted." What? Mind = Blown You can't be this stupid.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site to heart, we'd be grateful.
Someone who suggests that the government promotes a website that is wanting to make unverified healthcare related data available to healthcare professionals during a global pandemic is stupid.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/stupid
Showing poor judgment or little intelligence. In this case stupid = very poor judgement as a decision made on this data by healthcare officials could cost actual lifes.
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Personal attacks will get you banned here. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site to heart, we'd be grateful.
It's not a personal attack if it's a factual truth. Nobody will ban me for that. Someone who suggests that the government promotes a website that is wanting to make unverified healthcare related data available to healthcare professionals during a global pandemic is stupid. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/stupid Showing poor judgment or little intelligence. In this case stupid = very poor judgement…
Edit: Oh you were calling me stupid because you thought researchers wouldn't understand the concept of self-reported medical data. Give them some credit.