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Covid-19 screening tool seeking community contributions

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Re: Covid-19 screening tool seeking community contributions

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They mean "Sorry that your circumstances and symptoms are such that you're worried that you may have COVID-19"

Yes, this is what we meant. It does sound a bit weird though, we'll consider changing the wording. Thanks!

I couldn't find a pithy version that was much better. You may want to drop that part altogether--it comes off as a bit of a platitude since you wouldn't be on the site otherwise.

Re: Covid-19 screening tool seeking community contributions

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Is there any more documentation on the scoring system?

As I understand it, the weights are just the percentage of COVID+ patients that had each symptom. Fever gets 90.5 points because between 83 and 98% of pts had a fever and (83+98)/2 = 90.5.

The thresholds are back-calculated from recommendations: A 60 year old with a fever and dry cough should see a doctor. Using the point system above, that's 212.9 points, so...that's where the line is drawn.

This feels very adhoc to me, even though the (fractional!) point system makes it seem rigorous.

Re: Covid-19 screening tool seeking community contributions

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Is there any more documentation on the scoring system? As I understand it, the weights are just the percentage of COVID+ patients that had each symptom. Fever gets 90.5 points because between 83 and 98% of pts had a fever and (83+98)/2 = 90.5. The thresholds are back-calculated from recommendations: A 60 year old with a fever and dry cough should see a doctor. Using the point system above, that's 212.9 points, so...t…

Furthermore, each of the (binary!) checkboxes seem to linearly add weight to the total value, which seems overly simplified.

Re: Covid-19 screening tool seeking community contributions

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post #24

The ".com" tld, along with no licensing information on github does't make me feel very good about the request for contribution.

Thx for feedback, added MIT license! We have both the .com and .org domains, once we're ready for production they'll show the same material!
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