Early detection of COVID-19 in China and the USA: summary of the implementation of a digital decision-support and disease surveillance tool.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Rapid detection and surveillance of COVID-19 is essential to reducing spread of the virus. Inadequate screening capacity has hampered COVID-19 detection, while traditional infectious disease response has been delayed due to significant demands for healthcare resources, time and personnel. This study investigated whether an online health decision-support tool could supplement COVID-19 surveillance and detection in China and the USA.

Setting

Daily website traffic to Thermia was collected from China and the USA, and cross-correlation analyses were used to assess the designated lag time between the daily time series of Thermia sessions and COVID-19 case counts from 22 January to 23 April 2020.

Participants

Thermia is a validated health decision-support tool tha

SUBMITTER: Hswen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7733221 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature