This company claims its smart thermometer could help detect coronavirus hot spots faster than CDC
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"How do you curb the next pandemic if you don't know where it's starting? You have to know in real time," Singh says. "You have to know severity, how long-lasting is it, how many days does it take to get better, what are the worst symptoms. All of that boils down to accurate geolocated data." "I think the more information we have that can raise potential flags for the public health system to respond to, the better off we'll be," says Alain Labrique, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who is not affiliated with Kinsa. "Given the severity of the consequences of this infection and the spread of this pandemic, it's important to err on the side of caution and try to investigate clusters of fevers.
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