Facebook releases its first county-by-county maps showing the prevalence of self-reported COVID-19 symptoms based on data it has collected.
"I think providing aggregate data to governments and health officials is one of the most important tools tech companies can provide," Zuckerberg said.
The maps add to tech companies' growing efforts to use their vast networks and data-collection tools to help provide a clearer picture of the outbreak and possibly create systems that will help states ease lockdowns. Apple and Google have begun building a system forInstagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, who left Facebook in 2018, launched a website last week to track how COVID-19 is spreading in each state in real time.
, uses a metric called an effective reproduction number, which measures the average number of people who get the virus from one infected person.The announcement comes after the White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked tech companies like Facebook, Google and Apple forOfficials hoped to use the anonymous, aggregated data to track the virus' spread, a system called syndromic surveillance.
The maps are meant to help researchers understand the spread of the disease and how it's affected by population patterns. They don't show individual patterns, just information at the city or county levels.
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