“The world tries to curb the spread of infectious illness with almost zero real-time information about when and where disease is spreading,” Kinsa founder Inder Singh MBA ’06, SM ’07. “The question I posed to start Kinsa was ‘how do you stop the next outbreak before it becomes an epidemic if you don’t know where and when it’s starting and how fast it’s spreading’?” The real-time data from Kinsa’s smart thermometers inform county-level predictive models on where and when Covid-19 and other infectious illnesses are spreading. More at the link in the bio. . . #MITAlumni #COVID19 #SmartThermometer #BigData