{"id":23135,"date":"2021-02-09T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=23135"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:36","slug":"your-smartphone-can-help-fight-covid-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2021\/02\/09\/your-smartphone-can-help-fight-covid-heres-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Your smartphone can help fight COVID. Here\u2019s how."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Smartphones have helped many people get through the pandemic. They\u2019ve given us a way to connect with friends and family, manage work or school assignments, pass the time with games and social media, order food, track exercise and keep up on the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But did you know your smartphone can help fight COVID-19? It\u2019s true \u2013 and it\u2019s easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got a powerful tool right in your hands, and you can play a role in taming this pandemic and helping get to widespread vaccination so we can get back to normal,\u201d says\u00a0Preeti Malani, chief health officer for the University of Michigan and an infectious disease physician at Michigan Medicine. \u201cOf course, not everyone has a smartphone, including about one-third of people over 65, but the rest of us can use our phones to help those who don\u2019t \u2013 or point them to other ways of helping with these goals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are six ways to use your device to help yourself and others<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get alerts about possible exposures, sign up for vaccination, report your vaccine reaction, help researchers with their projects and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[810,70,194],"class_list":["post-23135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-covid","tag-health","tag-phone"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/animated_guy_with_shield_protecting.jpg",850,478,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/animated_guy_with_shield_protecting-400x266.jpg",400,266,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/animated_guy_with_shield_protecting-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/animated_guy_with_shield_protecting-768x432.jpg",665,374,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/animated_guy_with_shield_protecting-600x337.jpg",600,337,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/animated_guy_with_shield_protecting.jpg",850,478,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/animated_guy_with_shield_protecting.jpg",850,478,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/animated_guy_with_shield_protecting-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/animated_guy_with_shield_protecting-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/animated_guy_with_shield_protecting-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/animated_guy_with_shield_protecting-665x374.jpg",665,374,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/animated_guy_with_shield_protecting-400x266.jpg",376,250,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Get alerts about possible exposures, sign up for vaccination, report your vaccine reaction, help researchers with their projects and more.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23139,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135\/revisions\/23139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}