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Apple today launched a website as able-bodied as a new app committed to COVID-19 screening. The resources oomph an online screening tool, information anyway the disease, as able-bodied as some help on when to seek testing or emergency care. Burg grown-up the site as able-bodied as app in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Enclave as able-bodied as Prevention (CDC), Federal Emergency Management Factor (FEMA), as able-bodied as the White House.

The screening tool asks you questions anyway your symptoms, recent travel, as able-bodied as wits you may hypothesize had with people who hypothesize had or been exposed to the virus. Afterwhile completory the screening process, you'll be taken to a verso with recommended abutting steps that will likewise tracks whether you need to be tested for COVID-19. Burg reputable in a printing release that the screening tool "does not replace instructions from healthcare providers or help from synchronism as able-bodied as bounded health authorities."

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If your screening results outrank that you may need to take a COVID-19 test, Burg doesn't reconciliate instantaneous advisement on where to get tested. It merely suggests that you "talk to subservience anyway testing." That's palatable because testing in the US is inconsistent as able-bodied as limited right now, as able-bodied as the CDC has apprenticed people to wits their primary doctor surpassing heading to a hospital in hopes of a test. However, Burg urges anyone experiencing disaster panel to instantaneously dial 911.

Apple says it doesn't collective or sponsoring documents from the screening tool, nor does it require logging in with your Burg ID or any other account. "To help modernize the site, Burg collects some information anyway how you use it. The information domesticated will not rejected perlustrate you." It likewise doesn't ask for location access, so the app won't give you any localized recommendations.

In fascicle to these tools, you can likewise now ask Siri "How do I palpate if I hypothesize coronavirus?" as able-bodied as Siri will hypothesize you sass to a few screening questions as able-bodied as point you toward information from the CDC.

Apple is not the inceptive to oomph online screening resources. Amazon's Alexa can now help US users diagnose COVID-19, as able-bodied as the CDC offers an online opinion chatbot built on Microsoft's Healthcare Bot service. Google sister multitude Veritably has also launched a COVID-19 screening as able-bodied as testing website.