The Pandemic Respiratory Virus Epidemiological Surveillance Trial - A Self-swab Surveillance System for Respiratory Viruses Nested Within FluTracking PREVENT aimed to evaluate the feasibility of a community self-swab respiratory surveillance system embedded within the FluTracking Australia Framework. Hig

What viruses are up your nose? We asked 50 volunteers to swab their noses every week for a year to find out
#flutracking #COVID #rhinovirus #IDSky
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Plan to ditch flu tracking tool will leave big data gap, epidemiologist says The Ministry of Health is not renewing its contract for the FluTracking tool, which surveys about 40,000 people year-round, in a bid to cut costs.

Dropping #FluTracking in NZ for a measly $57k of cost-cutting? #NZPol

Why is #FluTracking stopping? There's so little value in killing it, and so much value in keeping it!

Flutracking.net | Tracking respiratory illness across Australia and New Zealand Flutracking is an online health surveillance system used to detect epidemics of influenza across Australia and New Zealand,

Based in Australia or NZ and want to help out with public health data and tracking? Anonymous, quick and easy, sign up for flu tracking (and covid-19 tracking, because yes it still exists).
#FluTracking #Covid19Tracking
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A graph showing weekly rates of respiratory illness in Australia from 2023 to 2025. Rates are highest in winter (June to August).

As one of ~90,000 Australian #FluTracking participants, I fill in a short survey each week about whether I had any COVID and flu-like symptoms and my vaccination status. It's always interesting to see the latest respiratory illness trends. #citizenscience #respiratoryillness #covid #influenza #flu

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Join #Flutracking and show them we want our data collected over Christmas and NY.
https://www.flutracking.net/Join/AU
They are providing the option with the most recent surveys to drop out over this period, but if we show there is demand, maybe they can get the budget to manage.

#FluTracking This looks like we're at the lowest proportion of the population with Influenza-like symptoms *ever*.

'There are still many Australians who aren’t getting tested when they feel unwell. In the past week, 65% of those who participated in the nation’s #FluTracking survey reported they didn’t get a #coronavirus test despite having both a fever &...

A by-product of national COVID19 control strategies is that there should be a whole heap fewer deaths from other infectious diseases this year #flutracking https://www.flutracking.net/Info/Report/Latest/AU xcancel.com/crgentle/status/12469050...