Rollout of Verily coronavirus triage tool Monday will be more limited than Trump seemed to suggest
Verily, the Google spinout focused on life sciences, on Monday will launch an online screening survey to triage people in the San Francisco Bay Area who are concerned they may be infected with the new coronavirus and, when appropriate, direct them to two mobile testing facilities in Silicon Valley.
Verily said in a statement it plans to roll out the tool to additional locations over time, but it did not provide details about when that would happen. At least for now, the pilot program’s scope is far more limited than the national rollout President Trump appeared to have been suggesting would happen in a White House press conference on Friday afternoon. After describing the website being developed by “Google,” he added in those Friday remarks, “We have many, many locations behind us, by the way. We cover the — this country in large part.”
