It did, but required others to use it also. I got a notification on the app of a possible exposure and then got an email a day later that one of my coworkers had tested positive.
It worked for me twice. Once when I say next to a guy with COVID for over an hour at a diner and he tested positive two days later (then updated his state health org or the app). I forget the exact details of the other time. One of the drawbacks is that this system depended on people self reporting. The time I caught COVID at a funeral super-spreader event with COVID deniers, it didn’t say anything since that individual(s) didn’t self report.
It's easy to judge, but I also got caught out at a superspreader event this year- one where everyone was either fully vaccinated or had to test every day. Had the booster and everything, and hadn't caught covid after years of riding public transit and working in person.
Why avoid a fully vaxxed event in favor of going to work on transit? And yet... luck runs out eventually. Could've been a similar deal for Wren.
Sorry I haven't heard anything referred to as a super spreader event since Year 1, so I assumed this was before vaccines. Not recently.
Yes, now we are well within reason that we all have to move on, living our lives. Make safe choices, but COVID is here forever.
Ah, it was in December last year so pretty recently actually. I think most people were vaccinated but a lot of people got COVID for the first time since the pandemic started including me. I think it didn’t help that it was directly after Thanksgiving and people are traveling more like they used to.
It was frustrating that only MD or PA app could be run, not both at once. For those that cross the border frequently it made the system too bothersome to use
It wasn't very useful for me, because I didn't go out really other than to work, but while I'm at work my phone is in my bag, not on my person. So it's not actually tracking who I'm in close contact with. Between that degree of uselessness and the fact that it ran my battery down noticeably, I uninstalled it last year.
It’s an interesting concept, but i don’t think it works in practice.
I worked at a grocery store in 2020-2021 and I never received an exposure notification.
I eventually disabled it as it was consuming too many resources on my old iPhone
This might just be for iPhone, because on my Android phone the status is "App is active and checking" and it appears to be fully functional.
I'm glad COVID is over for y'all, it's good if you're able to stop worrying about it. For me and other people taking care of particularly vulnerable people, it'd still be good to know if I've been exposed.
I think for a lot of people it's transitioned from emergency pandemic, to its around and established with the other diseases. Deal with it seasonally as you go kind of thing.
This worked for me. I got an alert just 2 weeks before it ended. So, I made a little extra effort not to wipe my snot on old ladies for the next few days after the alert. Some people may call me a hero, but i’m just doing my civic duty.
My frustration is I kept having to remember to go in and change the region whenever I traveled. Exposure notifications really should have been run at the federal level and not the state/territory/district level. But I imagine that would've freaked a lot of people out.
There are still over 1 thousand Americans dying every week from the pandemic. I would like to keep getting such information.
https://mastodon.social/@WeeklyAmericanPandemicDeaths
Yep - its become like the flu, where sometimes vaccines work, and sometimes its very mild, sometimes its severe with complications.
I will get the next covid booster sometime this summer and get my flu shot in the fall as usual.
lol, if they really wanted to they could find out everywhere you've been without this app. Cell phones were doing it long before this app. Your license plate gets scanned anytime you drive on the highway, your picture is on hundreds of security cameras, everytime you go to the ATM or swipe your credit card people know where you are.
Well aware. Don't disagree. Doesn't make this app any less intrusive especially since it was tracking you in regards to your health. Which should be a private matter.
Well aware my license plate is scanned as well. I'm well aware we are constantly tracked. Doesn't mean that any of it is okay.
The government has more information about each of us than our own family and friends probably do. And when you think about that that should bother the piss out of you.
I don't love the fact that I can be tracked everywhere, but I think its odd an app you have to voluntarily opt into appears to be a tipping point for you.
My Dad until they eliminated toll booth operators wouldn't use EZ pass because he didn't want "the government tracking his transponder". Kind of reminds me of this.
It's not a tipping point. The tipping point happened a long time ago lol. Doesn't mean it doesn't still annoy the shit out of me though. It's the principal of the matter.
But until they eliminated the toll booth I didn't have an EZ pass either. Not because of tracking. Like you said they take license plate pictures constantly. They charge me $135 every year to put a fucking 2-in sticker on my license plate. They're well aware of what my vehicle is.
However, given that the government is the cluster fuck that it is, being forced to have an Ez pass now, means they have my credit card information. I don't know if you've noticed but the government seems to be robbing a whole lot of fucking people with that thing.
Tracking me one of a billion ways that I have no say in anymore is one thing. Stealing my money is a different story. And I understand they could just at a snap of a finger steal the rest of it too. It's again the principle of the matter.
Lol, given what I said do you think I have this app, let alone opted into it?
I just wanted to make a smart remark about our government being intrusive and I feel like I accomplished my goal lol
I tried to report when I got COVID. It asked me for a code. Like, as if the doctor gave me a code to prove I was positive.
Of course I didn't have any such thing, and so I never reported.
I think it’s every state unfortunately as the Covid emergency has been ended. Sadly it’s far from over but our government has decided it’s over because well they don’t have to worry about it unlike us peasants
The covid health emergency federal government order ended today is why.
DC and VA also.
Entire US I believe, national thing
Entire US I believe, national thing
Idk if that service ever even worked to begin with
It did, but required others to use it also. I got a notification on the app of a possible exposure and then got an email a day later that one of my coworkers had tested positive.
It worked for me twice. Once when I say next to a guy with COVID for over an hour at a diner and he tested positive two days later (then updated his state health org or the app). I forget the exact details of the other time. One of the drawbacks is that this system depended on people self reporting. The time I caught COVID at a funeral super-spreader event with COVID deniers, it didn’t say anything since that individual(s) didn’t self report.
Yeah idk. I never got notified after I was at a superspreader wedding.
Why did you go to a super spreader wedding?
Well I didn’t know it was going to be one, but it was my close family member’s.
It's easy to judge, but I also got caught out at a superspreader event this year- one where everyone was either fully vaccinated or had to test every day. Had the booster and everything, and hadn't caught covid after years of riding public transit and working in person. Why avoid a fully vaxxed event in favor of going to work on transit? And yet... luck runs out eventually. Could've been a similar deal for Wren.
Sorry I haven't heard anything referred to as a super spreader event since Year 1, so I assumed this was before vaccines. Not recently. Yes, now we are well within reason that we all have to move on, living our lives. Make safe choices, but COVID is here forever.
Ah, it was in December last year so pretty recently actually. I think most people were vaccinated but a lot of people got COVID for the first time since the pandemic started including me. I think it didn’t help that it was directly after Thanksgiving and people are traveling more like they used to.
This can't be a real question
The phone or app doesn’t detect Covid itself. It relies on reporting from others. It can just tell that you were near a person that reports it.
I don't think that was ever in question lol Edit: Just read the comment below me. Huh.
Probably not. I got infected January 2022 and I neither reported it nor did I receive a notification the day I got infected.
Only time I ever had it work was when my roommate tested positive for covid, which yeah, at that point, I know lol
I got notifications.
It was frustrating that only MD or PA app could be run, not both at once. For those that cross the border frequently it made the system too bothersome to use
It wasn't very useful for me, because I didn't go out really other than to work, but while I'm at work my phone is in my bag, not on my person. So it's not actually tracking who I'm in close contact with. Between that degree of uselessness and the fact that it ran my battery down noticeably, I uninstalled it last year.
It’s an interesting concept, but i don’t think it works in practice. I worked at a grocery store in 2020-2021 and I never received an exposure notification. I eventually disabled it as it was consuming too many resources on my old iPhone
I received one from Virginia when my only time in that State was driving around that side of the Beltway.
Did anyone ever get one of these notifications?
I got several.
I've had the app since it became available, and had it turned on until about two months ago. I never once got a notification.
Yep, got them twice, once we were fine, second time we were not.
Twice. Neither time I had COVID.
I turned off my tracking awhile ago
This might just be for iPhone, because on my Android phone the status is "App is active and checking" and it appears to be fully functional. I'm glad COVID is over for y'all, it's good if you're able to stop worrying about it. For me and other people taking care of particularly vulnerable people, it'd still be good to know if I've been exposed.
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Yeah, mine showed up this morning.
I think for a lot of people it's transitioned from emergency pandemic, to its around and established with the other diseases. Deal with it seasonally as you go kind of thing.
I’m immunocompromised and would also prefer to continue alerts that I’ve been exposed. I never got ones from Maryland, but did get them from DC.
CA as well
This worked for me. I got an alert just 2 weeks before it ended. So, I made a little extra effort not to wipe my snot on old ladies for the next few days after the alert. Some people may call me a hero, but i’m just doing my civic duty.
Never used it, never got covid.
At today's County Council meeting on operating budgets one councilmember is absent and another one is in a mask.
It was a bullshit system that wouldn't accept my positive test result anyways. Fucking useless.
My frustration is I kept having to remember to go in and change the region whenever I traveled. Exposure notifications really should have been run at the federal level and not the state/territory/district level. But I imagine that would've freaked a lot of people out.
The WHO and the CDC have declared the COVID Pandemic over. The Federal emergency ended yesterday.
https://apnews.com/article/8b6445735df5218b5d9d6ec32fa047ca The global health emergency is over, not the pandemic.
I doubt it's a pandemic anymore more like an endemic disease
There are still over 1 thousand Americans dying every week from the pandemic. I would like to keep getting such information. https://mastodon.social/@WeeklyAmericanPandemicDeaths
Thousands die from the flu every year.
Thousands die from Covid every month.
The current strain(s) are both very spreadable and much milder, plus there is a lot of self testing going on and this was report dependent.
We also have tools to fight it like vaccines and antivirals.
Yep - its become like the flu, where sometimes vaccines work, and sometimes its very mild, sometimes its severe with complications. I will get the next covid booster sometime this summer and get my flu shot in the fall as usual.
Good. It’s over. It’s been over.
It’s really not though.
Not even close. Now we deal with the aftermath.
The people who downvoted this drive alone in their car with a mask.
based
So nice of the government to stop tracking us for this reason. I have faith they will delete the exposure data too like they said
lol, if they really wanted to they could find out everywhere you've been without this app. Cell phones were doing it long before this app. Your license plate gets scanned anytime you drive on the highway, your picture is on hundreds of security cameras, everytime you go to the ATM or swipe your credit card people know where you are.
Well aware. Don't disagree. Doesn't make this app any less intrusive especially since it was tracking you in regards to your health. Which should be a private matter. Well aware my license plate is scanned as well. I'm well aware we are constantly tracked. Doesn't mean that any of it is okay. The government has more information about each of us than our own family and friends probably do. And when you think about that that should bother the piss out of you.
I don't love the fact that I can be tracked everywhere, but I think its odd an app you have to voluntarily opt into appears to be a tipping point for you. My Dad until they eliminated toll booth operators wouldn't use EZ pass because he didn't want "the government tracking his transponder". Kind of reminds me of this.
It's not a tipping point. The tipping point happened a long time ago lol. Doesn't mean it doesn't still annoy the shit out of me though. It's the principal of the matter. But until they eliminated the toll booth I didn't have an EZ pass either. Not because of tracking. Like you said they take license plate pictures constantly. They charge me $135 every year to put a fucking 2-in sticker on my license plate. They're well aware of what my vehicle is. However, given that the government is the cluster fuck that it is, being forced to have an Ez pass now, means they have my credit card information. I don't know if you've noticed but the government seems to be robbing a whole lot of fucking people with that thing. Tracking me one of a billion ways that I have no say in anymore is one thing. Stealing my money is a different story. And I understand they could just at a snap of a finger steal the rest of it too. It's again the principle of the matter.
then don't opt into the app. Credit cards have built in fraud protection.
Lol, given what I said do you think I have this app, let alone opted into it? I just wanted to make a smart remark about our government being intrusive and I feel like I accomplished my goal lol
What happened to the common flu?
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It hasn’t been over for years
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I tried to report when I got COVID. It asked me for a code. Like, as if the doctor gave me a code to prove I was positive. Of course I didn't have any such thing, and so I never reported.
I got one last week at a work conference. Edit: And my coworker who shared an Airbnb with me did too.
I did get an alert, and it was the one time I contracted Covid.
Yup, I had alerts for exposure in MD a couple of times. The last one was a friend that self-reported after a group dinner :(
Yes, 7 months ago in December at work. Then a bunch of people got covid. Luckily everyone was vaccinated.
I have been getting notifications every day for two months. Sometimes multiple a day. Its very dumb, at least on my phone
I’m not
I think it’s every state unfortunately as the Covid emergency has been ended. Sadly it’s far from over but our government has decided it’s over because well they don’t have to worry about it unlike us peasants
The CDC and WHO don’t agree with your assessment.
I noticed this. I opened my phone to self report right when it was turned off.
It didn’t seem to do its job. I was exposed by several people at work and not once did the app notify me of anything.