{"id":9044,"date":"2020-08-14T11:34:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9044"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:35:08","slug":"app-based-tracking-of-self-reported-covid-19-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/14\/app-based-tracking-of-self-reported-covid-19-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"App-Based Tracking of Self-Reported COVID-19 Symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"54\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Zens<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0et al. report findings from the COVID-19 Symptom Tracker study, an app-based daily self-reporting study. Between April 8 and May 15, 22,327 individuals<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0living in Germany<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0installed the app, of which 11,829 (59%) completed the symptom questionnaire at least once. Of the 291 participants who received a SARS-CoV-2 PCR test, 22% were positive.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">U<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ntested participants<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0reported a mean of 0.8\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">symptoms\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">compared to<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">5.6 symptoms<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0among tested\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">participants<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Chills, fever, loss of smell, nausea, vomiting, and shortness of breath were the strongest predictors of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0infection. Diabetes and chronic heart disease were significant risk factors for positivity.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Zens<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0et al. (July 2020). App-Based Tracking of Self-Reported COVID-19 Symptoms. Journal of Medical Internet Research.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2196\/21956\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2196\/21956<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zens\u00a0et al. report findings from the COVID-19 Symptom Tracker study, an app-based daily self-reporting study. Between April 8 and May 15, 22,327 individuals\u00a0living in Germany\u00a0installed the app, of which 11,829 (59%) completed the symptom questionnaire at least once. Of the 291 participants who received a SARS-CoV-2 PCR test, 22% were positive.\u00a0Untested participants\u00a0reported a mean of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/14\/app-based-tracking-of-self-reported-covid-19-symptoms\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-9044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9045,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044\/revisions\/9045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9044"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}