Large-scale epidemiological monitoring of the COVID-19 epidemic in Tokyo.

ABSTRACT:

Background

On April 7, 2020, the Japanese government declared a state of emergency regarding the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Given the nation-wide spread of the coronavirus in major Japanese cities and the rapid increase in the number of cases with untraceable infection routes, large-scale monitoring for capturing the current epidemiological situation of COVID-19 in Japan is urgently required.

Methods

A chatbot-based healthcare system named COOPERA (COvid-19: Operation for Personalized Empowerment to Render smart prevention And AN care seeking) was developed to surveil the Japanese epidemiological situation in real-time. COOPERA asked questions regarding personal information, location, preventive actions, COVID-19 related symptoms and their residence. Empirical Bayes estim

SUBMITTER: Yoneoka D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7546969 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature