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How a smart thermometer is helping fight Covid-19 pandemic in the US

The tech firm, which developed the smart thermometer, is run by an Indian-origin founder

Kinsa, founded by Inder Singh
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Kinsa, founded by Inder Singh, has over 2.5 million thermometers spread out homogeneously to pinpoint illness trends across the US

Anjuli Bhargava New Delhi
Two weeks before Texas and Florida were struck by Covid-19 and well before the Center for Diseases Control in the United States anticipated it, the smart thermometer of tech firm Kinsa foretold the imminent outbreak.

This was when Inder Singh, 44, the Indian-origin founder and CEO of Kinsa, called the former New York state health commissioner and a couple of others in the thick of action and told them that the unusual spike in fever cases recorded in the two cities through his app could well be a sign of Covid-19.

It was early March 2020, and the two cities

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