Reports
What is the fever monitor?
As of today, the Corona Data Donation Project features the Fever Monitor (see menu ‘Tools’ in the top navigation bar).
The monitor depicts the time course of the fever detections that we obtain from the raw resting heart rate and step count data the donors provide. Similar results were already discussed in the posts Feverish and Fever curves by federal state.
In the last post Feverish we presented the first national “fever curve” based on and computed from the donors’ data. In this post, we not only want to give you an update on the national fever curve, but also want to show the results we obtained for the individual federal states in Germany.
Remember the goal of the Data Donation Project? When we conceived and launched the project about three months ago we thought that we could use the daily donations of resting heart rate and daily step count to detect the onset of fever in donors which in turn would help us quantify changes in the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic because fever is a symptom of the infection. Details of the underlying scientific idea were discussed in the blog post How does it work?.
The distribution of daily step counts
In addition to the daily average resting heart rate, we can obtain the daily step count from connected wearable fitness devices. Together with the resting heart rate, the step count is an important parameter for this study. As you can read in our post, The Pulse of the Nation, deviations from the average resting heart rate could indicate fever. However, resting heart rate may also deviate for various unrelated reasons.
The most important vital signal in our analysis is the resting heart rate. Since an increased heart rate could be a possible indicator for fever, which alone is a core symptom of COVID-19, the resting heart rate marks the basis for this study. More on this topic can be found here.
Dear Corona Data Donors!
We would like to express our sincere gratitude and appreciation to all of you.
Together, you have created a community of 538174 donors (as of 16.06.2021). On average, there are about 1304 donors per municipality in Germany, which is far more than we initially anticipated when the project was launched. Each and every one of you who registered for the Corona Data Donation is equipped with a fitness tracker or smart watch, directly enabling you to contribute data essential to understanding the COVID-19 situation in Germany. Moreover, your donation helps us improve our predictive models and develop a so-called Fever Map for Germany