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Flu Data Ahead of the CDC - Kinsa Uses Smart Thermometers to Reveal where Flu is Spreading Right NowSAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Kinsa (kinsahealth.com) announces the launch of Kinsa Insights (kinsainsights.com) to track the spread of contagious illness and influenza in real-time across the US. The service leverages anonymized inputs from the company's smart thermometers. The earliest and most actionable system to detect when and where contagious illness is spreading, Kinsa Insights data is nearly perfectly aligned with the CDC's influenza data over the past 3 years, but is available right away and with unprecedented geo-precision. View an animated map depicting the 2017-2018 path of flu in the United States up until TODAY here. "Similar to advance notice of extreme weather, early signs of increasing illness could be invaluable to families and communities, enabling people to take precautions in areas that will be hard hit in the weeks to come," said Inder Singh, founder and CEO of Kinsa. "Kinsa's mission is to stop infectious illness from spreading through earl detection and early response, and this flu season is shaping up to be one where advanced knowledge could potentially save lives." Methodology Outbreak Summary About Kinsa
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