GOOGLE CORONA WEBSITE UPDATE
Update 3/13 6:30pm ET: Verily communications head Carolyn Wang clarified the extent of the company's plans to The Verge, saying the following: The triage website outlined by Trump was originally intended for health care workers only, rather than the general public. According to the CDC, just over 11,000 specimens have been tested in the US since January. The Trump administration pledged to roll out 1 million testing kits by the end of last week, though authorities missed that goal. The US has more than 1,600 confirmed cases of the virus and more than 40 afflicted people in the country have died, according to the CDC. It's also implemented tools to curb misinformation about the outbreak online. Google pledged on March 6th to help governments around the globe tackle the coronavirus pandemic, working directly with the World Health Organization. Verily is in the early stages of development, and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time. Statement from Verily: "We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing.
Verily is largely known for its wearables, such as the ECG-driven Study Watch. Project Baseline is a global health-mapping and clinical research initiative that functions in collaboration with outside scientists and volunteers. We appreciate the support of government officials and industry partners and thank the Google engineers who have volunteered to be part of this effort." Google confirmed Verily's involvement in a tweet, saying, "We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for COVID-19 testing. In a memo to employees seen by CNBC, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company's life sciences arm, Verily, was working to "aid in the COVID-19 testing effort in the US." This reportedly includes partnering with government officials to direct potential patients to Verily's Project Baseline website. In the meantime, please continue to take care of yourselves and each other.You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu. As the coronavirus situation continues to evolve, we will be thinking of even more ways we can be helpful to all of our users, partners, customers and communities. I’ve shared some early examples of what we are doing to help below. It’s important that we approach it with a sense of calm and responsibility-because we have many people counting on us.Įvery day people turn to Google products for help: to access important information to stay productive while working and learning remotely to stay connected to people you care about across geographies or to simply relax with a great video or some music at the end of a long day.
As we make these changes, we have been making sure that our hourly service vendor workers in our extended workforce who are affected by reduced work schedules are compensated for the time they would have worked. Some of our offices have shifted to a work-from-home status ensuring business continuity, while others are still operating as normal. And it is also important to think about how we can help our local communities as we make these changes. We’re also trying to build resilience into our operations-and our products-by testing our own capacity to work remotely. In doing so, we weigh a number of factors grounded in science, including guidance from local health departments, community transmission assessments, and our ability to continue essential work and deliver the products and services people rely on. We have set up a 24-hour incident response team to stay in sync with the World Health Organization, and Google’s leaders are meeting daily to make critical decisions about our offices globally. Many in Europe and the Americas are just now beginning to experience what people in Asia have been confronting for weeks. Read this post in Spanish here.Īs COVID-19 makes its way across the globe, it’s affecting our communities in different ways. Note: The following is based on an email to employees that Sundar sent earlier today.
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