Contrary to Trump's claim, Google is not building a nationwide coronavirus screening website

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: The Verge

Google is not working with the US government in building a nationwide website to help people determine whether and how to get a novel coronavirus test, despite what President Donald Trump said in the course of issuing an emergency declaration for the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, a much smaller trial website made by another division of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is going up. It will only be able to direct people to testing facilities in the Bay Area.

More than an hour after Trump’s press conference, a Google communications Twitter account passed along the following statement from Verily, which is a different company inside the Alphabet corporate umbrella:

We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing. 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. We appreciate the support of government officials and industry partners and thank the Google engineers who have volunteered to be part of this effort.

Carolyn Wang, communications lead for Verily, told The Verge that the “triage website” was initially only going to be made available to health care workers instead of the general public. Now that it has been announced the way it was, however, anybody will be able to visit it, she said. But the tool will only be able to direct people to “pilot sites” for testing in the Bay Area, though Wang says Verily hopes to expand it beyond California “over time.”

Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21179118/google-coronavirus-testing-screening-website-drive-thru-covid-19

[Pillow talk]

1. i won't be giving google my medical information.

[Apollo Zeus]

3. they already have it

[Pillow talk]

4. not mine. That's a 100%

[Yavin4]

7. If Google doesn't have it, then Amazon certainly does.

More specifically, Amazon Web Services

[Pillow talk]

8. this assumes my medical history is outside my own doctor. Searches on the internet is nonexistent.

[Yavin4]

9. Do you have insurance? Does your doctor use a computer?

Does your doctor have a lot of patients?

[Pillow talk]

11. i fell into an interesting group of the insured. no general practitioner yet get full attention

of my specific problems. mine is arterial. I'm not sure if this unique

[Yavin4]

14. Your medical records are probably stored on a cloud some where. More likely AWS.

Not accessible by the internet, but is accessible by AWS.

[CaptYossarian]

6. He pulls so much out of his ass, it looks like a fleshy clown car.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Was this going to work with the testing sites in parking lots of the big Pharmacies?

I can see everyone with a push cart or spare ice cream truck ramping up to swab for $10, can't you?

[jayfish]

10. Lol.

I told someone at work, based on an informed guess, "that isn't going to happen".

Dolts.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. Another lie. Jeezus I'm shocked. Public has no trust and we're about to enter recession. Winning.

[turbinetree]

13. So if this is true why would I give my medical

information to a oligarch that paid no fucking taxes...................and google says they are doing it..........................he really is a fucking imbecile, does he have stock in the company.......................oh I forget he is traitor, that is true.......................

[iluvtennis]

15. And trump said google had 1700 engineers working on this. LOL, 1700 engineers to develop a trial

website - I call BS. trump is such a lying sack of sh*t.

[Botany]

16. He lies like he breathes

Remember "I finished top of my class at Wharton."

He finished nowhere near the top of his class @ the University of Penn and
Wharton is really known for its MBA program which Trump had no part of.