Context: Recently Verily, in collaboration with the California Governor’s office, federal, state and local public health authorities, will launch pilot intended to expand access to COVID-19 risk screening and testing for high risk individuals at Bay Area locations
About Verily 

• It is the life sciences and healthcare subsidiary owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet.
• Launched in 2015, Verily claims its mission is to “make the world’s health data useful so that people enjoy healthier lives”.

Project Baseline website

• It is a technology platform that supports research and community health initiatives.It focused on making it easy and engaging for people to contribute to the map of human health and learn more about their own health. 
• Project Baseline was launched in 2017 with the goal of bridging the gap between research and care.
• The Project Baseline website launched by Verily helps in determining whether a coronavirus screening test is required for a person living in the United States.
• Individuals who take the online COVID-19 screener survey and meet eligibility requirements for testing will be directed to mobile testing sites based on capacity, where they will complete a nasal swab test.
• A clear agenda is to create a detailed baseline of what a healthy human being should be using anonymised data from hundreds of users.

About “SOS Alert” System

• An “SOS Alert” System was also been introduced by the Google.
• An “SOS Alert” on coronavirus searches across the world, giving prominence to posts from mainstream news publications and health authorities.
• SOS Alerts aim to make emergency information more accessible during a natural or human-caused crisis.
• It has also banned ads for face masks as well as monetisation on YouTube videos related to COVID-19. This seeks to dis-incentivise creation of fake videos promoting alternative treatments for the virus