Here comes another tool, technological and therefore usable strictly at home and alone, to fight against the coronavirus emergency. It's an app, it's called “I stay at home“, like the slogan launched by the Government itself to invite (oblige) citizens to go out as little as possible, and was developed by the Federation of Italian Medical Scientific Societies (FISM), in collaboration with Exprivia. The app helps citizens not to panic and to monitor their situation and that of the people close to them without necessarily having to leave the house and visit a doctor: in fact, "iorestoacasa" allows self-assessment by citizens of symptoms and behaviors adopted in the last period.
The app, equipped with advanced features for data analysis with Artificial Intelligence, allows you to answer a series of questions that investigate symptoms, travel, family, habits and vaccines made and based on citizen responses the technology will evaluate the level of attention – high, medium, low – to be paid to one's health conditions, without prejudice to all the rigorous prescriptions issued by the Ministry of Health and the ISS. In addition to the questions and the final evaluation, "iorestoacasa" also offers an agile practical guide in 10 points, which reminds everyone of the now well-known basic rules (from washing your hands often to NOT going to the emergency room, but first calling the base on the telephone) and debunka the most recurring psychoses (from pets that DO NOT infect to parcels from China that are NOT dangerous).
We tested the app, verifying that it goes from the most immediate questions (do you have a fever? Do you have a cough?) to real exercises to check for breathing difficulties, up to questions on the type of profession carried out, on the movements of the last month, on the health of relatives, on some lifestyle habits and whether or not the anti-flu vaccination was used. For the record, after answering all the questions the author of the article was fortunately found to be "low risk".
