Spikes in fevers across the US predicted deaths from the novel coronavirus in most states just days beforehand. Kinsa Health, a medical technology company based in San Francisco, has been tracking daily fever readings using data from smart thermometers connected to the Internet. Of the 47 states that have experienced deaths from COVID-19, the disease … Read more
Taking COVID-19’s temperature: Daily ‘smart thermometer’ data suggest US stay-at-home orders may be flattening the pandemic’s curve as fever rates fall nearly 80% below experts’ predictions A map of daily temperature readings show fevers across the US are 77% lower than experts’ predictions About 2.86 percent of Americans were expected to have fevers – but … Read more
As states across the US continue to see a decrease in fevers during the coronavirus pandemic, Florida and Maine are seeing upticks. Kinsa Health, a medical technology company based in San Francisco, has been tracking daily fever readings using data from smart thermometers connected to the Internet. According to one of Kinsa’s maps, which tracks … Read more
Only one percent of Americans have fevers despite experts’ predictions that twice as many would as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the US. Kinsa Health, a medical technology company based in San Francisco, has been tracking daily fever readings using data from smart thermometers connected to the Internet. On Tuesday, data showed that … Read more
Data uploaded from one million ‘smart thermometers’ suggests strict social distancing measures may be key to ‘breaking the chain’ of coronavirus spread as fever rates dropped when California counties locked down Kinsa Health has been collecting about one million thermometer readings in an effort to predict where coronavirus is spreading Data shows that in places … Read more