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Coronavirus Hasn’t Sparked CURE ID Physician Social Network Interest

 
• By Derrick Gingery

US FDA/NIH smartphone app is intended to allow clinicians and others to talk about potential treatments for infectious diseases, but so far COVID-19-related activity has been limited.

CURE ID website
The CURE ID forum for coronavirus so far has attracted only limited use among registered clinicians and others. • Source: Screenshot

A smartphone app from the US government designed to help physicians collaborate about potential treatments for rare infectious diseases does not appear to be gaining much traction in the coronavirus outbreak.

The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) created the CURE ID app and website to serve as a...

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