Avoiding crowds? There’s an app for that
Joseph Biggers is part of a team at the University of Memphis MD2K Center of Excellence that have released mContain, a new, free app that gives people a read on where groups of 10 or more are milling about. It also pings users when they've had an encounter close and long enough that transmission could have occured. To come, it will tell users if they crossed the path in the last 24 hours of someone who tested positive. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian)
A new, free app lets people share positive COVID-19 status and allows users to know within 24 hours if they have come in contact with another app user who tested positive.
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Longtime journalist Jane Roberts is a Minnesotan by birth and a Memphian by choice. She's lived and reported in the city more than two decades. She covers business news and features for The Daily Memphian.
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