Google asks users about symptoms for Carnegie Mellon coronavirus forecasting effort

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Google asks users about symptoms for Carnegie Mellon coronavirus forecasting effort

Aiming to predict spread of coronavirus infections.

Alphabet Inc's Google said on Monday that over the last three days it had surveyed some users about their health at the request of Carnegie Mellon University researchers aiming to forecast the spread of coronavirus infections. Google's Opinion Rewards app, which exchanges responses to surveys ...

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