“Hospitality is the economy,” as city manager John Regan likes to say -- local businesses rely on an influx of tourists and spring breakers this time of year to survive. Regan bought 600 thermometers from Kinsa to hand out to St. Augustine families on Tuesday.
As America’s oldest city, St. Augustine, Florida, draws visitors from around the country. “Hospitality is the economy,” as city manager John Regan likes to say -- local businesses rely on an influx of tourists and spring breakers this time of year to survive.
To help, Regan struck a deal with one company that claims to have an innovative way to help close the information gap. The thermometers, which are connected to a smartphone app, are designed to crowd-source unusual fever activity in real-time. Singh said Kinsa has more than one million thermometers in circulation. Most are sold on Amazon, but the company has also donated thermometers to low-income schools. In recent weeks, demand has outpaced supply and the devices are on back-order, he said.
WHOOP, a fitness tracking app, also said its technology could “help predict who may have coronavirus before they show symptoms,” according to Will Ahmed, the company’s CEO. The WHOOP app, which connects to a wearable bracelet, allows users to self-report positive coronavirus diagnoses. “The converse can also be true,” Slavitt continued. “If you're talking to [officials] in another city where the virus hasn't spread much yet, you could tell them that they could, in a cautious way, keep some of their businesses open.”
Another concern raised by industry experts is that Kinsa, a for-profit company, publishes material to its interactive map without going through a scientific peer-review process. Singh said his decision to publish raw, non-vetted data reflected “a moral imperative” for awareness of the disease’s spread, even as his company is submitting its findings for peer review in parallel.
“Since day one, we've been spending our time trying to think about privacy because ultimately we are a public health company. And if we don't have the trust of the public, we have nothing,” Singh said. “And we think we found the exact right equation to fully protect an individual's privacy while exposing data that is necessary for society and communities to respond to outbreaks.”
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