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PARIS (TICsanté) - Créé mi-mars sous l'impulsion du Pr Fabrice Denis, oncologue-radiothérapeute au Mans et concepteur d'applications de pré-diagnostic médical, le consortium "Alliance digitale contre le Covid-19" a présenté le 18 mai sa nouvelle plateforme "CoronaPsy.fr", destinée à "orienter les Français dans l'évaluation et la prise en charge de leur santé mentale" impactée par la crise sanitaire.
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La PME francilienne BforCure lance la commercialisation de son laboratoire mobile et connecté "Chronos" dédié aux tests PCR. La détection rapide du Covid-19 est le premier cas d'usage mais l'automate s'adresse également aux secteurs de la défense et de l'industrie.
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Identifying new COVID-19 cases is challenging. Not every suspected case undergoes testing, because testing kits and other equipment are limited in many parts of the world. Yet populations increasingly use the internet to manage both home and work life during the pandemic, giving researchers mediated connections to millions of people sheltering in place.
Objective: The goal of this study was to assess the feasibility of using an online news platform to recruit volunteers willing to report COVID-19–like symptoms and behaviors.
Methods: An online epidemiologic survey captured COVID-19–related symptoms and behaviors from individuals recruited through banner ads offered through Microsoft News. Respondents indicated whether they were experiencing symptoms, whether they received COVID-19 testing, and whether they traveled outside of their local area.
Results: A total of 87,322 respondents completed the survey across a 3-week span at the end of April 2020, with 54.3% of the responses from the United States and 32.0% from Japan. Of the total respondents, 19,631 (22.3%) reported at least one symptom associated with COVID-19. Nearly two-fifths of these respondents (39.1%) reported more than one COVID-19–like symptom. Individuals who reported being tested for COVID-19 were significantly more likely to report symptoms (47.7% vs 21.5%; P<.001). Symptom reporting rates positively correlated with per capita COVID-19 testing rates (R2=0.26; P<.001). Respondents were geographically diverse, with all states and most ZIP Codes represented. More than half of the respondents from both countries were older than 50 years of age.
Conclusions: News platforms can be used to quickly recruit study participants, enabling collection of infectious disease symptoms at scale and with populations that are older than those found through social media platforms. Such platforms could enable epidemiologists and researchers to quickly assess trends in emerging infections potentially before at-risk populations present to clinics and hospitals for testing and/or treatment.
source: Credit to Regenstrief Institute
read the entire study here : https://www.jmir.org/2021/5/e24742
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Although COVID-19 outbreaks are more frequently reported in larger cities, our analysis
shows that future policies should prioritise the reduction of risks in areas with
a low socioeconomic level—eg, by providing financial assistance and improving public
health messaging. However, our study design only allows us to assess associations,
and a long-term study is needed to decipher causality.
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