submitted by froehlic@augsburg.edu
Several Augsburg employees & students are involved with launching SafeDistance, a new app from HealthPartners & University of Minnesota.
This app has been featured on KARE-11, WCCO-CBS Minnesota, and Pioneer Press.
SafeDistance is a free, non-profit app and website that crowdsources symptom data to help detect, predict, and prevent the spread of COVID-19, all while assuring your privacy.
By using SafeDistance, you’ll receive:
* Personalized, social distancing recommendations
* Neighborhood-level COVID-19 risk map
* Assured privacy – no account required, you remain anonymous
The more people donate their data to SafeDistance, the more detailed the risk map will be – and the better University of Minnesota & HealthPartners researchers will be able to track the spread of the virus.