SlowCOVIDNC

By NC Department of Health and Human Services

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SlowCOVIDNC is the official COVID-19 Exposure Notification app for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS). It allows users to know if they may have been in close contact with somebody who has shared a constructive COVID-19 check end result through the app. Users can anonymously share a optimistic COVID-19 test end result to assist sluggish the spread of COVID-19.

NCDHHS created this app so that North Carolinians can do their part to protect their neighborhood and slow the spread of the virus.

HOW SLOWCOVIDNC WORKS?

Step 1: Download the SlowCOVIDNC Exposure Notification app. Enable Bluetooth and Exposure notifications.

Step 2: After opting-in to receive notifications, the app will generate an anonymous token for your gadget. A token is a string of random letters and numbers that is used to represent a telephone for a short time frame. This ensures your privateness and security are protected. These individual tokens change each 10-20 minutes and are never linked to your id or location.

Step 3: Through Bluetooth, your cellphone and the telephones around you with the SlowCOVIDNC app are working within the background (without draining your battery or data) to change these anonymous tokens each few minutes. As a outcome, gadgets can bear in mind how lengthy they're close to one another. Phones also document the Bluetooth signal energy of their exchanges in order to estimate how far aside they are.

Step 4: SlowCOVIDNC periodically downloads tokens from the server which were uploaded from the devices of customers who have examined positive. Your phone then uses its data of the signal power and period of exposures with those tokens to conduct a threat calculation and determine if you have met a threshold for notification.

Step 5: If you have tested positive for COVID-19, you could obtain your PIN from your native public health department and submit that into the app. This voluntary and nameless reporting notifies others who've downloaded the app and will have been in shut contact with you within the last 14 days that they may be at risk.

HOW SLOWCOVIDNC PROTECTS YOUR PRIVACY?

Using SlowCOVIDNC is totally voluntary, and you may enable or disable it at any time. When utilizing SlowCOVIDNC, your privacy will be protected. Tokens will acquire and share date, time, sign power and period of proximity. No location data or personally identifiable data will ever be collected or stored.

By enabling Bluetooth and Exposure Notifications, you can anonymously share a optimistic COVID-19 test outcome to assist sluggish the spread of COVID-19. You may be notified if you have been in close contact with someone who has shared a positive COVID-19 check result.

Learn extra about how your privateness is protected and our privacy coverage on the NCDHHS website.

Thank you for downloading SlowCOVIDNC. Together, we will slow the spread of COVID-19!

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