Flu Data Ahead of the CDC - Kinsa Uses Smart Thermometers to Reveal where Flu is Spreading Right Now

SAN 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 early detection and early response, and this flu season is shaping up to be one where advanced knowledge could potentially save lives."

Methodology
Kinsa turned the first device people grab when they feel ill - the thermometer - into a support system to keep families and communities healthy. These IoT devices send temperature readings to the Kinsa health app, where users can add additional information (e.g. symptoms) directly, receiving guidance and access to care in the moment of need. With 10 million temperature readings recorded from over a million users dispersed across the U.S., Kinsa knows the percentage sick down to the county level. Kinsa's influenza signal has been validated against CDC data with an R-squared over .96 for the past two years.

Outbreak Summary
View an up-to-date illness summary here or sign up to receive weekly insights from www.KinsaInsights.com.

About Kinsa
Kinsa offers a suite of smart products and services, including its family of smartphone-connected thermometers, that guide users from the first sign of sickness through recovery and beyond by recording illness details and offering guidance on what to do next. Kinsa also shows common illnesses circulating within communities, and has built a real-time health map to help track and stop the spread of illness. Kinsa has won numerous awards, including the Grand Prize in Medical Innovation by the Cleveland Clinic, and is available in thousands of retail locations in the US. www.kinsahealth.com. For enterprise sales, please contact sales@kinsahealth.com.

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