03-25-2020, 01:59 PM
Remember that this picks up all fevers, it's not just covid fevers. The decline would happen more quickly because of fevers from pathogens with shorter incubation times, which is basically every common illness, right? It's not like SCC was running at this stable background level of covid fevers, it was flu, bad colds, etc etc. Those are what's coming down, covid is barely measurable.
They have some maps that show "anomalous" fevers that, provided whatever algorithm they use to predict the number of fevers can be trusted, would be much better at spotting covid in a population that's otherwise not changing its behaviors. But I'm not sure you can safely pick out a few dozen cases of covid out of what must be tens of thousands of background fevers.
They have some maps that show "anomalous" fevers that, provided whatever algorithm they use to predict the number of fevers can be trusted, would be much better at spotting covid in a population that's otherwise not changing its behaviors. But I'm not sure you can safely pick out a few dozen cases of covid out of what must be tens of thousands of background fevers.