Contrary to Trump’s claim, Google is not building a nationwide coronavirus screening website

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Google is not working with the US government in edifice a nationwide website to help people dispose whether as well as how to get a atypical coronavirus test, notwithstanding what Stewards Donald Trump said in the debouch of outpour an emergency declaration for the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, a much smaller trial website made-up by liberty farthing of Alphabet, Google's pater company, is going up. It will only be stalwart to instantaneous people to testing facilities in the Bay Area.

More than an hour postliminary Trump's columnist conference, a Google communications Twitter bimonthly passed furthermore the henceforth stead from Verily, which is unaffectedly a variegated company inside the Alphabet corporate umbrella:

We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing. Verily is in the early stages of development, as well as planning to cycle testing out in the Bay Area, with the materiality of expanding increasingly broadly over time. We capeesh the abutment of government presidency as well as industry partners as well as thank the Google engineers who have volunteered to be partition of this effort.

Carolyn Wang, communications lionization for Verily, told The Verge that the "triage website" was initially only going to be made-up available to health intendance workers instead of the granted public. Now that it has been communicated the way it was, however, anybody will be stalwart to visit it, she said. Except the tool will only be stalwart to instantaneous people to "pilot sites" for testing in the Bay Area, whereas Wang says Verily hopes to hyperbolize it overseas California "over time."

The triage armpit has to be put roused aural a few days, as well as it will be hosted at Project Baseline, the Verily website zone people can sign up to booty partition in dissecting trials. That's a seemingly odd place for the triage tool to live, except Wang says that Project Baseline once has cocksure all-important tools like an isolation consent agreement, accordingly it makes faculty to put it there.

"Google is going to ennoblement a website -- it's going to be very quickly done, warring websites of the practiced -- to dispose if a test is welcome as well as to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location," Trump said at the columnist conference. "We have many, many locations defaulting us, by the way. We aviary this country as well as large pudenda of the world, by the way. We're not gonna be talking fitfully the world seasonable now, except we aviary very, very acerb our country. Supplies in virtually every location. Google has 1,700 engineers working on this seasonable now. They have made-up tremendous progress."

As for the 1,700 Google engineers Trump referenced in the columnist conference, that appears to be simultaneous to a chroniker for volunteers Google as well as Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai put out in a company-wide memo earlier this week.

In all, the difference between the realness of what is concreteness built as well as what was promised during the columnist briefing is very large.

"We capeesh the abutment of government presidency as well as industry partners as well as thank the Google engineers who have volunteered to be partition of this effort."

-- Google Communications (@Google_Comms) March 13, 2020

Debbie Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, showed a flowchart during the columnist briefing that explained what the proposed functionality of the website would be. Parvenu from Alphabet or Google batten at the event, although many officers from other health as well as retail companies did.

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-- Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) March 13, 2020

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The new coronavirus is spreading through the US, as well as several states have made-up emergency declarations. The World Health Persuasion has declared it a pandemic. Perseity are the basics:

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As Birx professed the website, citizens would be stalwart to enter their unhealthfulness and, depending on what the results are, be directed to a "drive thru" testing facility. That aforementioned website would believably conjointly be zone people can go to find their results.

Unfortunately, we don't perceive much fitfully the website Birx professed -- not its URL, when it will launch, or how it will work. The only thing we do perceive is that Google did not build it; it is concreteness built by liberty farthing of Alphabet instead.

Alongside the website, the president's emergency declaration should ajar up to $50 billion in funding, new testing facilities, as well as new partnerships with surreptitious companies to provide testing services. You can read increasingly on the government's response in our story.

Update March 13th, 5:30PM ET: Updated with Google's tweet

Update March 13th, 6:15PM ET: Added denotation that Google is not edifice the website Stewards Trump described