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1700 Google Employees helping Gov coronavirus website

8 points| mohamedmansour | 6 years ago | reply

Donald Trump just said, 1700 engineers at Google helping build a website? Anyone knows what he is talking about?

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[+] hastes|6 years ago|reply
They are developing an online system to determine whether or not a person who "thinks" they are affected should go get a test done and where they can get it done.
[+] kenny87|6 years ago|reply
Google is not building a nationwide website, just a trial one for Bay Area:

"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."

- https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21179118/google-coronavir...