Reports

Note: Updated on April 11, 2022. See end of this text for details. Datenspende 2.0 is finally here. Since mid-October you can answer short questionnaires in the app to help us to substantially improve our understanding of the donated vital data in relation to COVID-19.

This weekend it’s that time again: The clocks will be changed back one hour, from daylight saving time to standard time. Since the beginning of the Corona Data Donation, this is the third clock change.

Dear donors, After several months of preparation, it is finally here: Corona Data Donation 2.0, through which you can participate in scientific studies on the consequences of the Corona pandemic as of today.

Dear Donors, For the past year, our fever monitor has compared two distinct signals: The detections of anomalous vital signs and weekly incidences of COVID-19. Both signals have unique advantages and disadvantages when it comes to monitoring current trends of the pandemic:

Dear donors, When this project started in April 2020, we did not expect hundreds of thousands of people to donate their health data for more than a year - your participation and continued willingness to support this project has exceeded our boldest dreams.

Dear donors, In this report, we will take a closer look at the detections we have observed over the course of the last year and compare the fever curve to other existing COVID-19-related public health data.

Around a quarter of you donates not only their daily heart rate and steps but also their sleep data, particularly how long and when you sleep. Since sleep provides a wealth of information on health and well-being, we are now taking a closer look at these data - enlisting also the expertise of sleep researchers.

Dear donors, since the middle of December, we have seen a significant decrease in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Germany until the end of February. However, until now the Fever Monitor has continued to deviate from the case counts starting around the beginning of the new year.

During the past few weeks we have been updating our Fever Monitor on a daily basis, based on the heart rate and activity data measured by the wearable devices and smart watches of more than 520.

The Corona Data Donation Project is designed to detect fever symptoms in the time-series of the donors’ daily resting heart rate and daily step count signals. See blog post “How does it work?