“During flu season, one place to check for the level of outbreaks is Google Flu Trends, which extrapolates outbreak levels from the rise in flu-related searches. Today, it launched a more detailed view which maps flu levels across 121 cities in the U.S., including New York City, San Francisco, and Minneapolis. So you can now check to see how your city is doing compared to past years, or see if it’s a good idea to travel to Chicago in January.
As it turns out, after an early spike in flu levels last October, the country is experiencing a relatively low level of outbreaks overall. What happens next is still anyone’s guess, though, because this year’s H1N1 flu strain is new…..”
Post via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on 1/12/10.
Read the complete and original post at: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/12/google-flu-trends-city-level/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)
Check out the site at Google.org Flu Trends — http://www.google.org/flutrends/us/#US
