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Google Subsidiary Verily

  • 17 Mar 2020
  • 2 min read

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The company Verily has gone live with its Project Baseline website for COVID-19 testing.

  • The website helps in determining whether a coronavirus screening test is required for a person living in the United States.

Key Points

  • Verily is the life sciences and healthcare subsidiary owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet.
  • Launched in 2015, Verily claims its mission is to “make the world’s health data useful so that people enjoy healthier lives”.
  • Project Baseline was launched by Verily in 2017 with the goal of bridging the gap between research and care. A clear agenda is to create a detailed baseline of what a healthy human being should be using anonymised data from hundreds of users.
  • Verily also owns Calico — acronym for “California Life Company” — researching into aging and related diseases.

Steps Taken by Technology Giants to Deal With COVID-19

  • Google
    • An “SOS Alert” on coronavirus searches across the world, giving prominence to posts from mainstream news publications and health authorities.
      • SOS Alerts aim to make emergency information more accessible during a natural or human-caused crisis.
    • It has also banned ads for face masks as well as monetisation on YouTube videos related to COVID-19. This seeks to disincentivise creation of fake videos promoting alternative treatments for the virus.
  • Microsoft
    • Microsoft Bing team has launched a web portal for tracking COVID-19 infections worldwide.

Source: TH

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