It will soon be possible to participate in monitoring the spread of the coronavirus in the French population. This participatory project named Covidnet.fr will therefore be relaunched. Indeed, it was already present during the first wave of contamination of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus.
In an article published on September 11, 2020, L'Express states that the Covid-19 epidemic is unlikely to explode as it did last March. There will therefore not necessarily be a second wave . However, the current situation could persist for months or even years. Already set up in the spring, the Covidnet.fr participatory project will return on September 14. This is an epidemiological surveillance which will occur at the same time as that of the seasonal flu. Indeed, Covidnet.fr and Grippenet.fr form a single platform for the tenth season of the project.
Internet users are therefore invited to complete a questionnaire once a week to describe their state of health. Remember that it is not mandatory to be followed by a doctor to participate. Indeed, it is enough simply to indicate whether everything is fine or, if necessary, to describe its symptoms. In addition, the project includes questions about barrier gestures or about the number of people you have met recently.
Thanks to this project, officials will have an overview of the spread of the coronavirus on the territory. There will therefore be a double follow-up with the flu. Obviously, it is up to enough people to register and complete the questionnaires. Developed by Inserm and Santé Publique France, Covidnet.fr should make it possible to supplement data from traditional flu surveillance systems, namely hospitals and of course, private doctors. It's all about reducing the "blind spot" embodied by people who do not consult.
You should know that the project's questionnaires are anonymous. If it is a question of entering an e-mail address at the time of registration, this should not be associated with the data. Moreover, this is of no interest to the project teams because they are in a research process.
Recall that the global toll of the coronavirus is around 28 million cases for more than 900,000 deaths. Currently, the most affected countries are the United States, India and Brazil.
Here is an explanatory video about the Covidnet.fr project:
