Healthy Together

I’m so glad Utah is doing this! Too many people in the southern and rural parts of the state aren’t taking COVID-19 seriously enough, I’m afraid, because we haven’t had nearly the number of cases they’ve had up north. But for that very reason people are flocking down here to have fun without practicing social distancing or wearing masks, etc. As a small business owner who’s cautiously about to reopen, I’m grateful for a tool like this that will help me check my own health status daily, let me know if and when I should call my doctor or get tested, AND alert me if I’ve been around someone who has later tested positive. It’s essential for contact tracing. Even more so for me, since half of our customers in spring and summer are from out of town.

Contact tracing is absolutely critical to stopping the spread of COVID. Please everyone volunteer your data, the app says you can delete it whenever, it it’s important for health officials to know where its spreading. Thank you to those who built this app, it looks great! I’ve been in technology / health for the last 20+ years and I’m not sure how you built it so quickly AND polished. I’ve been monitoring apps in other countries, waiting for one in the USA, this one looks to be the most comprehensive well built solution, I am really hopeful this will help stop the spread and speed up recover. 🚑❤️

In a sea of negativity and bad news this has been a welcome reprieve. As a healthcare professional it’s been disheartening to see the health and economic devastation that COVID-19 has caused. Like most Americans I’ve been wary of opening the economy too soon. However, the initiative that Utah has shown, in ramping up testing, in making more PPE, and now in the creation of this app, give me so much more comfort that we will be able to strike this balance and continue to both fight this pandemic and restart the economy in responsible ways.

I got this app hoping it would let me know if someone I’ve been in contact with has been diagnosed. But I’m assuming all those people who refuse to wear a mask to the grocery store are also among those who are paranoid about this app invading their privacy. Without the majority of my neighbors using it, all I get from it is a somewhat annoying daily reminder to check my symptoms. Unless some new symptom is discovered, I don’t need an app asking me every single day if I have a cough or loss of taste. Pretty sure I’ll notice that on my own. I’ll still keep the app for the slight chance I come in contact with someone else who has the app and tests positive.

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Map doesn’t render properly on iPhone. Currently using iPhone 8 Plus w/ iOS 13.5 would also be nice to see hot spots on the map. Note this app doesn’t use Apple or Google contact tracing capabilities of your o/s. So for instance this app does not let you turn on contact trace logging within iOS settings privacy health and is not currently supported by state health departments. Also not sure how it reports people who had the virus but are now safe. Sounds like it requires everyone to use it to be effective. As for me I’ll wait to see what app the Virginia Health dept recommends for Virginians.