Web platform developed by Harvard Medicine School, Boston Children's Hospital and technology industry volunteers, offers tools to know COVID-19 symptoms and identify current or potential cases near you.
The website Covid Near You (https://covidnearyou.org/#!/), helps in tracking and monitoring COVID-19 cases or symptoms in the American citizens.
At the top of the site it shows a question to the user "How are you feeling?", if the answer is "Not feeling well", it will throw a series of symptoms that the user should mark according to their situation.
Fever, fatigue, cough, sneezing, aches & pains, runny nose, chills/night sweats, sore throat, diarrhea, headache, shortness of breath, nausea, rash and other, are the symptoms that show the site. When selecting the options, the site will show questions about medical appointments, date of the first symptoms, vaccines, among others.
Later it asks the user for their Zip Code, to confirm their location and that their symptoms if they are severe or if a test will subsequently be performed, they are recorded on the map that appears on the home page.
The Map shows the number of users by zone and zip code, who have shown severe symptoms or who have been tested and indicates that in the last two weeks more than 3.000 users of the platform in the United States have shown symptoms of COVID-19 and more than 1.000 have performed a COVID-19 test. Recently the option to show user data from Canada and Mexico has been added, however the data collected at the moment is insufficient.
This kind of tools in emergency situations, such as this one living in the US and the world, are necessary for citizens to respect social distancing and to take precautions if they present symptoms.
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