Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/27/apple-and-the-cdcs-covid19-s.html
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OK, I’ll be the first wanker to ask “can anyone recommend a good Android counterpart to this app”.
I can only imagine the volume of flakey malware apps waiting for me in the Google Play Store touting themselves as COVID-19 self-diagnosis tools
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Oh man, in a move that is both genius and highly ironic, you’ve suggested that there is money to be made off of malicious COVID-19 self-diagnosis apps.
For further irony, it will actually provide accurate diagnosis while it pillages your phone.
/me downloads Android SDK
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two kinds of infection for the price of one!
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I think most of the world imagines every tickle in their throat as the beginning of the end.
A reflux support group I’m on is loaded with anxious sufferers who have coughs and sore throats all the time.
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There’s a companion website:
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Last I read you can have covid without any symptons. So this app could never diagnose you as healthy right?
Last I heard, two regions that do a lot of testing (Iceland and some regions in the north of Italy) saw that roughly half of the people carrying the virus have low symptoms or even show no symptoms.
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How is this different from the diagnostic tool on the CDC’s website? https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/testing.html
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It’s probably not.
But many people prefer apps to websites. (That’s why I don’t have a web authoring business these days.)
Anything that helps hypochondriacs stay home is a positive, though.
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http://www.mycovid19risk.com/ (Not https, but collects no personal data.) Written by a doctor in New York, updated frequently.
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