{"id":44039,"date":"2020-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/08\/california-introduces-smartphone-coronavirus-exposure-alert-tool\/"},"modified":"2020-12-10T18:10:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T18:10:35","slug":"california-introduces-smartphone-coronavirus-exposure-alert-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/08\/california-introduces-smartphone-coronavirus-exposure-alert-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"California Introduces Smartphone Coronavirus Exposure Alert Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n<p>If a user tests positive for COVID-19, they will receive a code they can use to send an anonymous alert to others<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Dec. 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A smartphone tool to alert people of possible COVID-19 exposure will become available in California on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the voluntary tool uses Bluetooth wireless signals to detect when two phones are within 6 feet (1.8 meters) of each other for at least 15 minutes, the <em>Associated Press<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>If a user tests positive for COVID-19, they will receive a verification code they can use to send an anonymous alert to other users who may have been exposed over the past 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>The tool&#8217;s introduction comes as California&#8217;s COVID-19 cases soar and new restrictions are imposed, the <em>AP<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/san-francisco-california-coronavirus-pandemic-restaurants-3bab2a515f80757f806f9adf6559f8d4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>AP News<\/em> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a user tests positive for COVID-19, they will receive a code they can use to send an anonymous alert to others<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":44236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-44039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}