Facebook just released an interactive COVID-19 map that shows how many people are reporting symptoms in your area
Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.Facebook just rolled out an interactive COVID-19 map that shows how many people are reporting symptoms of the virus across the US.
Facebook says a new sample of Facebook users will be surveyed every day to keep the map updated, and that survey responses are kept anonymous.A new interactive map created by Facebook shines a new light on the spread of coronavirus: Rather than rely on the number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19, it shows how many people are reporting coronavirus symptoms on a county-by-county level.
"Facebook is uniquely suited to run these surveys because we serve a global community of billions of people and can do statistically accurate sampling," Zuckerberg wrote in aMonday morning. "We do this in a privacy protective way where only the researchers at Carnegie Mellon see individual survey responses — and Facebook only sees aggregated data."
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