Covid Watch

The Covid Watch Arizona app is now called WeHealth Arizona. The new name better communicates its purpose to empower people to protect their communities through timely, relevant and actionable health information hubs.li/Q017zcXm0

1 in 4 Bermudians are using the WeHealth Bermuda App to help keep communities safe from Omicron. Now you can get up-to-date stats showing how we’re making an impact and slowing the spread of COVID-19. Stay in the loop and view the dashboard today: hubs.li/Q013GTdV0

Right now 1 in 4 Bermudians are using the WeHealth Bermuda App. This resulted in up to 20% of cases averted during the Delta wave. That’s up to 538 cases averted!

Our team is working hard to continue to provide our technology as a service to communities as we face new challenges in the fight against the spread of COVID-19. Visit wehealth.org for more information.

We applaud these efforts to notify citizens of technology and resources. With new variants of the disease rapidly spreading, we believe individuals deserve to know as fast as possible if they’ve been exposed to allow them to take action to help themselves and others.

This week Android device users in AZ were notified to download the Covid Watch Arizona app to aid citizens in helping to stay safe and protecting others from potential exposure to COVID-19. Since the update, we have seen an increase in 26,500 downloads.

Should we all get a vaccine booster (3rd dose)? New preprint w @billy_gardner_ , we examine impact of 3rd doses on key topic: transmission. medrxiv.org/content/10.110… tl;dr 3rd dose could significantly reduce Rt & stop some surges, but doses should 1st go to unvaccinated if possible

if we can trace faster, we can treat faster, and we can save live and reduce duration of symptoms

Post-exposure prophylaxis could be a #COVID19 game changer. Learn more about it at our seminar tomorrow (Monday) 9am PT / 6pm CEST wehealth.org/partners/scien… 1/6

What will be the future of contact tracing for COVID-19? Test-Trace-Isolate is a relatively blunt intervention, due to high social costs of quarantine (but less blunt than generalised closures of course!) Two potential TTT alternatives: Test-Trace-TEST and Test-Trace-TREAT. 1/

Will early treatment and prophylaxis for #COVID19 completely change the incentive structure for #contacttracing? Join our 10th Science of Pandemic Technology webinar Monday October 18th 9AM PT 6PM CEST wehealth.org/partners/scien…

Very excited

We're grateful for WeHealth UX Research Intern Niti Patel, who just completed a project studying behaviors around influenza in the workplace! Learn more about her findings: hubs.li/H0YSrFd0

We're grateful for WeHealth UX Research Intern Niti Patel, who just completed a project studying behaviors around influenza in the workplace! Learn more about her findings: hubs.li/H0YSptF0

🎉Join us in welcoming @SameerHalai & his team @WeHealthOrg to the #StartUpHealth global army of #HealthTransformers! Developing & delivering exposure notification apps, like Covid Watch, WeHealth is on a #HealthMoonshot to power smart #digitalhealth solutions.

Check out Laura Atukunda's internship project, where she studied COVID-19 mitigation strategies on university campuses. We are so impressed with her work. Thanks, Laura! hubs.li/H0YCSh80

Our latest Science of Pandemic Tech seminar is now on YouTube! Learn more from our expert panelists on different designs for COVID-19 presence tracing protocols, and the rationales behind them. hubs.li/H0YysWm0

Today is the day! There is still time to register for our seminar on presence tracing strategies at 12 PM PST / 9 PM CEST with co-hosts @JoannaMasel from WeHealth & @LucaFerrettiEvo from @bdi_oxford. wehealth.org/partners/scien…

Save your spot for our seminar tomorrow! ⏰ wehealth.org/partners/scien…

WeHealth seeks a Head of Public Health to assess effective use of the exposure notification and public health communication framework. The ideal candidate has a passion for both #tech and #publichealth. This promises to be an exciting opportunity! #hiring hubs.li/H0XZ_ff0