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How citizen scientists can help fight COVID-19 - Rob Tucker - 04-14-2020
How citizen scientists can help fight COVID-19
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-14/how-citizen-scientists-can-help-fight-covid-19
As the new coronavirus continues its assault on humanity, scientists are fighting back by gathering data from an unlikely source: ordinary people.
With a smartphone app and a little free time, anyone 18 or older can contribute valuable information that might help bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, researchers say.
The apps ask volunteers — whether they’re feeling healthy or sick — to log their symptoms and, with permission, tap into the health data that smartphones and fitness trackers collect as a matter of course. Others apps search out more context, asking participants about their success in social distancing and the status of their jobs, among other things.
At a time when most people are isolating themselves at home, this kind of crowdsourcing could make a world of difference to researchers, said Dr. Gregory Marcus, a cardiologist and a co-leader of a UC San Francisco initiative called COVID-19 Citizen Science.
Go to link for more...
RE: How citizen scientists can help fight COVID-19 - geochem - 04-14-2020
Rob, your link didn't take.
I am participating in one of these that is being run by a several universities and hospitals (Mass General, Harvard, Stanford, Kings College) - and is cooperating with Hawaii's Multi-ethnic Cohort Cancer study.
A link for that one is: https://covid.joinzoe.com
You will have to copy and past the address into your browser...
RE: How citizen scientists can help fight COVID-19 - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 04-14-2020
Good article Rob, and good suggestion.
Here's the link from the story:
COVID-19 Citizen Science
https://eureka.app.link/covid19
RE: How citizen scientists can help fight COVID-19 - ironyak - 04-14-2020
You can also put some of your idle computer power to work helping to identify potential treatments for covid.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/coronavirus-how-your-pcs-spare-computing-power-could-help-discover-potential-covid-19-treatments/