Building an international consortium for tracking coronavirus health status
Eran Segal, Feng Zhang, Xihong Lin, Gary King, Ophir Shalem, Smadar Shilo, William E. Allen, Faisal Alquaddoomi, Han Altae-Tran, Simon Anders, Ran D. Balicer, Tal Bauman, Ximena Bonilla, Gisel Booman, Andrew T. Chan, Ori Cohen, Silvano Coletti, Natalie R. Davidson, Yuval Dor, David A. Drew, Olivier Elemento, Georgina Evans, Philip Ewels, J. S. Gale, Amir Gavrieli, Benjamin Geiger, Yonatan H. Grad, Casey S. Greene, Iman Hajirasouliha, Roman Jerala, André Kahles, Olli Kallioniemi, Ayya Keshet, Ljupčo Kocarev, Gregory Landua, Tomer Meir, Aline Müller, Long H. Nguyen, Matej Orešič, Svetlana Ovchinnikova, Hedi Peterson, Jana Prodanova, Jayaraj Rajagopal, Gunnar Rätsch, Hagai Rossman, Johan Rung, Andrea Sboner, Alexandros Sigaras, Tim D. Spector, Ron Steinherz, Irene Stevens, Jaak Vilo, Paul Wilmes
Abstract
We call upon the research community to standardize efforts to use daily self-reported data about COVID-19 symptoms in the response to the pandemic and to form a collaborative consortium to maximize global gain while protecting participant privacy.