Register and report COVID-19 and flu symptoms on a weekly basis, track the spread of COVID-19 and flu in your community, and find local health and vaccine information. Created by epidemiologists and software developers at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard, and a group of volunteers from across the technology industry, Outbreaks Near Me uses crowdsourced data to visualize maps to help citizens and public health agencies identify current and potential hotspots for COVID-19 and influenza. The website is the next generation of a tool called Flu Near You, created by Ending Pandemics, Boston Children's Hospital, and the American Public Health Association in 2012 and maintained by the Boston Children’s Hospital team. We ask that you take a few seconds to report if you and your household have been healthy or sick. Our team analyzes thousands of reports and maps them to generate local and national views of COVID-like and influenza-like illness, providing public health officials and researchers with real-time, anonymous information that informs about the COVID-19 pandemic, can lessen the impact of the seasonal flu, and prevent the next pandemic. Interpretation of data from Canada is being done in collaboration with researchers at the University of Toronto and Toronto Public Health. Thanks to the generous donors who made this work possible, including AtScale, AWS, BlazeMeter, Cloudflare, Datadog, MongoDB, SurveyMonkey, TechSoup.
