COVIDWISE

COVIDWISE is the official COVID-19 publicity notification app for the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Department of Health (VDH). The app was developed in partnership with SpringML using a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) API framework created by way of a singular collaboration between Apple and Google.

Your personal use of COVIDWISE will considerably help inform Virginians suspected of getting been inside close proximity to somebody with a constructive COVID-19 prognosis. When you obtain COVIDWISE, you are doing your part to efficiently and successfully assist your group keep forward of any potential resurgent developments in circumstances. This is vitally important because the business sector, healthcare industry, K-12 faculties, establishments of higher schooling, non secular organizations, sporting/recreation actions, and others depend on appropriate interventions to ensure the health of our communities and keep economic viability.

How COVIDWISE Works:

If someone reports to the app that they examined positive, the signals from their app will search for different app customers who shared that signal. The BLE signals are date-stamped and the app estimates how shut the two gadgets were based mostly on signal power. If the timeframe was a minimum of 15 minutes and the estimated distance was inside six toes, then the other user receives a notification of a potential publicity. No names! No location!

The BLE framework within COVIDWISE will run in the background, even when the publicity notification app is closed. It is not going to drain the system battery at a fee that might happen with other apps that use regular Bluetooth and/or are open and working continually.

How COVIDWISE Protects Your Privacy:

VDH takes your privateness and confidentiality very significantly. This is why we chose to use the Apple and Google BLE framework. No private data or location monitoring happens inside this app. In reality, there is not a want for VDH to know the place or who you are for COVIDWISE to work. If you are shut sufficient to a different app consumer, the BLE technology will share alerts with that user.

Laboratory outcomes for all persons who take a look at constructive for COVID-19 are sent to VDH. This just isn't associated with the app. Our staff follows up with individuals reported as constructive, based mostly on data provided throughout the laboratory report.

Anonymously Share Positive Test Results With COVIDWISE:

When VDH receives any optimistic COVID-19 lab result registered with a sound cell phone number, we'll mechanically ship a text message to that particular person, which supplies speedy notification and encourages them to stay home and away from other individuals. The text additionally lets people who've tested positive know they might retrieve an 8-digit verification code from the COVIDWISE Verification Portal at https://apps.vdh.virginia.gov/CWP. You must enter your final title, date of birth, and the phone number that matches the information out of your registered COVID-19 check to verify your constructive outcome.

You may use that 8-digit verification code to find a way to anonymously report a optimistic outcome to the app. This prevents individuals from falsely reporting positive results, which may generate false publicity notifications. VDH needs all app users to really feel assured that when a possible COVID-19 exposure is obtained through the app, that it is a real event.

If you've the present Apple or Google operating system installed on your system, you could have noticed that Exposure Notifications are actually included. Apple and Google will delete the exposure notification service instruments from their respective operating techniques once the pandemic reaches a point that public well being not requires the usage of this technology.

Thank you for downloading COVIDWISE! Together, we are able to defend our family, pals, neighbors, and colleagues, and hold Virginia transferring forward!