The smartphone app that notified you if you may have been exposed to someone who recently tested positive for COVID-19 will be going away next month. FOX13
President Biden told congress he will end the two national COVID-19 emergencies later this year.The smartphone app that notified you if you may have been exposed to someone who recently tested positive forThe Washington State Department of Health announced Monday its WA Notify app is scheduled to end May 11, the same day the Public Health Emergency is set to end.
"We're tremendously proud of what WA Notify was able to accomplish in a relatively short amount of time, and eager to find ways to utilize this life-saving technology again in the future," said Dr. Bryant Thomas Karras, Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Washington State Department of Health.
As the Public Health Emergency ends, high levels of vaccination, combined with widespread population immunity and available treatments, have significantly reduced the risk of severe illness, hospitalization, or death from COVID-19, health officials said these were factors that contributed to the reduced need for the app.
The app launched in Nov. 2020 and about 235 users confirmed a positive test result in WA Notify, generating more than 2.5 million anonymous exposure notifications, preventing tens of thousands of COVID-19 cases, and saving lives, the department of health said. Washington was one of the first states to implement exposure notification technology.
People who test positive for COVID-19 are encouraged to anonymously notify others on the app through May 11. After that, the Department of Health encourages people who test positive to tell their close contacts that may have been exposed. that I have read and agree
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