July 7, 2020
In March, a team at USC’s Gehr Family Center for Health Systems Science and Innovation helped create a patient self-assessment tool to help people determine whether they might have the novel coronavirus.
The Gehr team kept at it, tracking usage of the tool to detect trends. What they’ve found is that only 20 percent of users reported severe symptoms that require immediate medical attention. The rest reported mild symptoms “that can likely be managed with simple home self-care,” said William Mehring, a first-year medical student at the Keck School of Medicine who helped work on the tool and who led the research. …