Google Helps Predict the Spread of the Corona Virus by Asking Users for Covid-19 Symptoms
Google said they had conducted a health survey for three days from a number of users. This was done because of a request from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University to be able to predict infections from the corona virus.
Google conducts surveys through Opinion Rewards, which is an app to exchange survey responses from Google credits with app stores.
Through the application, Google can ask a number of questions to the user. Starting from whether there is a fever at home, accompanied by a sore throat and cough. That’s the question according to a statement seen on Reuters.
Google Helps Predict the Spread of the Corona Virus by Asking Users a Number of Questions
“Requested by Carnegie Mellon University researchers who are working to estimate the spread of Covid-19 in the United States. We recently ran a Google survey questionnaire. Asking people if they have any such symptoms.” said Google spokesman, Matt Bryant as followed from Reuters.
The rest he also said users must choose surveys and the information that will be received by researchers will be collected and is completely anonymous.
Google said they already have ongoing partners with a number of academic institutions, one of which is the campus above.
Conducting a Survey Through the Website
Several years ago, a number of researchers from universities have also predicted the trend of flu in the United States
The group, which goes by the name DELPHI, has plans to apply research methods to help track Covid-19.
Google said the survey was run through the website and several partner applications.
The company says any surveys about health conditions will be given a special warning before users see the question.
Recently, Google has launched a special site that discusses the Covid-19 disease in the United States. If you don’t know what the special site is about the corona virus, you can take a look at the link below.
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