Volunteer-Covid-Status

Inspiration

• Coronavirus is spreading exponentially across the world, • Yet there is no serology test yet on the market. • Various mathematical simulations of viral spread lead to dramatically different strategies of public health-related action. • Western countries have abandoned both testing and contact tracing (a least in mildly symptomatic cases) if disease

I have been working as an epidemiologist supporting a bunch of medical students in the UK to offer their services babysitting for healthcare worker staff, I realised that now the UK and many other countries are in full or partial lockdown volunteers will now be a major source of spread

A number of apps/developments have been proposed and even developed to do crowd surveillance however all require going on a website. Now the UK and other western countries have entered lockdown. The chances of spread are restricted to

• Transgressions of the rules • Shopping or essential trips • Critical sector workforce who remain working • volunteers

In UK 200,000 volunteers have now been recruited to help deliver services for the NHS to vulnerable people. Key workers and volunteers now present the greatest risk for transmitting COVID-19 between themselves, NHS staff and the people they are helping/

What it does

We propose a surveillance + work instruction for People volunteering to support healthcare workers deliver care to vulnerable people in isolation. We will create a Facebook app/widget in the form of a Facebook messenger chatbot which also posts your status regarding volunteering and health on profile (like relationship status)

• Status re volunteering • Health status • Where health status changes support to crowd contact trace • Educational chatbot tool showing people how many risky interactions they have had so they can make

We have a partnership with a UK volunteer matching platform