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🌏 Background
Why this tool is useful
As the number of hospitalized Covid-19 cases continue to rise in Sweden, vital health system resources will soon be strained needing informed decisions on how to best allocate them. In the absence of a robust SARS-CoV-2 testing strategy, combined with a lack of government-led measures to curb the spread of infection, there is no reliable way to estimate the scale or impact of the disease in Sweden.
Comparable projects
In Europe, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health established an online symptom reporting tool (https://minhelse.helsenorge.no/skjemautfyller?Query=Questionnaire/302) meant to track the natural evolution of symptoms. Within 24 hours of its launch in the UK, the C-19 COVID Symptom Tracker App (covid.joinzoe.com) had 650,000 downloads. The letsbeatcovid.net online survey is a collaboration between NHS doctors and Leeds University Institute of Data Analytics. Similar data collecting tools have been established in several other countries, including Netherlands, Slovakia and others.
🏆 How we win
Vision
Here, we propose to create a similar online symptom-reporting tool. This will allow to collect anonymous information such as: location, major and minor symptoms of Covid-19 infection, presence of co-morbidies, and risk-factors associated with Covid-19 exposure. We expect less than 2-5% of surveys submitted to actually have the disease. Nevertheless, collecting large amounts of data will allow for downstream analysis, predictive modeling and generate data-driven insights for decision-makers.
Strategies
Based on this form, we will be able to identify the geographic location of people experiencing major or minor symptoms, that also have co-morbidities and are at high- risk of developing the disease.
Differentiation
🚀 How we execute
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What we're not doing:
The survey cannot diagnose coronavirus infection. The questions are intended to identify the geographic areas in which the coronavirus is spreading in Sweden. This will help locate areas with potential high numbers of infected people. All data will be used solely for helping track the spread of virus.
Risks and mitigations
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survey content |
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analysis | longitudinal analyses will imply visitors re-submit |
Open questions and next steps
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