Open Covid-19 Patient Database

Question

Hello everyone,I am wondering why don't people create a database where COVID-19 patients themselves can upload their data to help finding the answers. The dimensions I am thinking about is beyond basic "severeness" and "time to recover" but also nutrition/supplement informations or health condition informations, fitness, being too exhausted for a longer time / lack of sleep before sympthoms arise.I know many of this is personal information and I also know it is hard to verify these pieces of information, but I think there are many people who are willing to help with their data, but there is no platform for that.I don't know how to do this this is just the idea.Edit: South Korea has already tested more than 140.000 people, (https://www.google.hu/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-coronavirus-testing-death-rate-2020-3%3famp ) it would be really interesting to see their data.

TimLipp · Accepted Answer

I volunteer the next two days to help with this in any way I can. I've been working on a similar citizen science idea, related to home efficiency (beaverlodge.game), but it might have some parallels in methodology. My background is more data science and marketing, but I have a bit of coding experience as well.

nezuzen · Answer

I just posted an idea similar to this, without having seen yours first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22574128
add geolocation data and location based app awareness and alerting.
The problem me thinks are language barriers and cultural-socio privacy differences.
Next level technology could really help in this space, if we could only get our global sh*t together...

probinso · Answer

Do not allow PII! Be very careful about what you gather as publicly sourced data.Think about what can happen if false data is entered. Consider both malicious and ignorant cases.

RocketSyntax · Answer

I'm down to help. You could skip a UI and go straight jupyter w csv file - get some nice visualizations out there quick. Google Forms.