Flu Near You
Boston Children's Hospital
ACCESS INFORMATION
DATA ACCESS
https://flunearyou.org/ACCESS TYPE
Open access
DATA FORMAT
- html
OVERVIEW
RESOURCE DESCRIPTION
Flu Near You provides weekly influenza trends and forecasts based on crowdsourced reports of influenza-like illness. It is intended to provide a publicly available, informal early detection and response tool that can be used before official influenza surveillance data have been published. Crowdsourced reports are collected via online survey and mapped each week to show the estimated percent of participants with influenza. Notably, Flu Near You only tracks symptoms and not whether a case has been confirmed by a laboratory test. Only individuals 13 years or older are surveyed. Flu Near You is available in the US and Canada, and data can be viewed at the national or state/province level. Data collected through Flu Near You is also available in HealthMap. Additionally, symptoms reported to Flu Near You which are not consistent with influenza may be incorporated into HealthMap under the appropriate public health event category.
BROAD DATA CATEGORIES
- Disease metric
- Disease surveillance
SPECIFIC DATA ELEMENTS
- Flu
- Cases
RESOLUTION
GEOGRAPHIC RESOLUTION
- State
GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE
US; Canada