Multiple initiatives are underway across the country to close knowledge gap
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Shrey Jain, an engineering science student at the University of Toronto, photographed in his home on Friday afternoon in Mississauga. Last week, Mr. Jain teamed up with classmates to cobble together a crowdsourcing approach to the data gap. The result is flatten.ca.It’s the question that has most bedevilled public-heath officials urgently trying to understand the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.
The likelihood that many mild or asymptomatic cases are going unreported in the community means that the risk is now impossible to localize. Last week, Mr. Jain teamed up with classmates to cobble together a crowdsourcing solution that could help to fill the void. The result is, a website launched on Monday that asks people to sign up and report their symptoms which are then anonymously mapped by postal code.
“One of the sad things about the pandemic is our lack of information ... our inability to understand which neighbourhoods might need more ventilators, which communities this might spread more quickly in," said Marzyeh Ghassemi, a faculty member of the University of Toronto’s Vector Institute who specializes in the application of artificial intelligence to health care and who has become one of the experts advising Mr. Jain and his team.
“Imagine that an app in your phone would keep track of the probability that you are infected based on where you have been and the encounters you made and would share that risk information with people you encounter so their app could update their own risk estimation,” University of Montreal AI leader Yoshua Bengio wrote in a web post this week.
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