🏷️ About: 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 someone who has shared a positive COVID-19 test result through the app.
- The app is a useful tool for contact tracing and can help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
- The app works well when lots of people have it installed and use it.
- The app is easy to use and provides notifications if you have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.
- The app can be used across state lines and can alert you to possible exposure from travelers.
by 100th Try @ A Nickname
I would bet $ that the majority of people in NC who’ve had COVID and have tried to use SlowCOVIDNC are/were in the same situation that I’m in right now…I’ve tested positive twice with @ Home tests and have no need to go to the health dept to be told other wise yet this isn’t “good enough” to be able to receive a PIN for SlowCOVIDNC. If I could, I would bet the majority of people who’ve had COVID at some point did not go to a health dept to be tested and therefore ended up being just another missed opportunity @ alerting anyone, which is what I thought this apps main purpose was for.
I had high hopes when I first downloaded this but it just turned into a big disappointment in the end unfortunately😒
by Ktmeier
My husband had a positive Covid test, as did both of my sons. My husband tried 3 times on 3 separate days, during the week that he tested positive, to get a PIN number so he could report. Tried calling and was told he had no PIN number (they saw his info in the system, but no info for PIN number—which I thought was immediately and automatically generated), and to maybe just try back another day.
Well, now he is done with his 10 day isolation, so he isn’t contagious anymore. So it is pretty pointless now to alert anyone he may have been in contact with during his first few days of contagiousness, 10+ days ago. They may already have caught it, passed it on to someone else, and added to the sad statistics of this pandemic.
Seems like they aren’t putting effort into SlowCOVIDNC anymore? Good idea, but it only works if they make it easy, or heck, even simply possible, to report.
by TurquoiseBleu
I’ve had this on my phone since approximately june 2020. never received any alerts that I have been exposed leading me to believe no one uses it. Finally tested positive for COVID19 this week. attempted to report it in SlowCOVIDNC but it required a pin purportedly to prevent false reporting. said i could get a pin at a specified website or call a number. already too much work. the next day I thought about it again and decided to try to get a pin. website can’t find me and does not provide a pin. i’m done. no wonder i’ve never received a notification. no one can even report being sick. we don’t need more hoops to jump through. concerned about over-reporting? how about underreporting? SMH delete app
by Heavenshome
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I initially started out enjoying SlowCOVIDNC since I work in the medical field and even encouraged others to download SlowCOVIDNC and to some degree, it gave me peace of mind until patients, their family members and also coworkers would test positive for Covid and I observed that SlowCOVIDNC never once alerted me, even when one was as close as 1 foot within my proximity. Therefore, SlowCOVIDNC never performed as expected or intended indicating that it’s essentially useless and unfortunately can’t be relied upon. To the developers, you had an exceptional idea but more testing is definitely needed in order for SlowCOVIDNC to ever function as it’s really designed to. Please continue your research.
by Miss Mookie Kitty
SlowCOVIDNC makes it VERY difficult if not impossible to share a positive covid test. You have to have a PIN number and if your doctor has not reported your positive test to health department, no pin will be given to you. Why would anybody lie about a positive covid test. Good lord! So I tried to do the right thing but can’t get a pin so nobody will be notified of my positive test. I would love to know how many people actually get PIN numbers when they call. What a joke.
by Gryzby
Takes 24-48 hours after test result to get a pin to verify a positive test. I’m also saddened by the late rollout and slow adoption for a simple app that Apple provided the framework for. Most people still don’t know about SlowCOVIDNC, I went through the testing process with Duke and SlowCOVIDNC was never mentioned, never advertised anywhere. This should be one of the most important tools for mitigating the spread and its being treated like a novelty. Why not StopCovidNC?
by Bea Careful
I have to say — I’m a little disappointed. We’ve had SlowCOVIDNC downloaded on my families phones since it was released and haven’t left the house without masks in months. My husband tested positive earlier this week and we immediately went through the steps of verifying through SlowCOVIDNC . It’s been three days and neither his, nor mine, says we’ve been exposed. This makes me wonder how many people I passed on our morning walks, picking up groceries, etc. who might have been positive as well.
by Aarrrrgh...
I’ve been trying for over a week to obtain a PIN to self report my positive COVID test result in SlowCOVIDNC but I keep getting the message “unfortunately we couldn’t find you in our system”. What good is SlowCOVIDNC if I can’t share my time-sensitive information in a timely manner? Are NCDHHS COVID-19 portal and app even syncing with each other? Today is day 8 after receiving positive test result. I cannot imagine how many people I’ve infected along the way that’s asymptomatically walking around infecting others because I can’t obtain a PIN in order for SlowCOVIDNC to work like it’s supposed to. Who created this, Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos? They should be charge criminal fraud, too!
by Alamcarter
Love the idea of SlowCOVIDNC but in order to report a positive test you need a pin. You can’t request one online which leaves you to have to call. Ok not a huge deal but is another step. Next issue is that because the case count is so high you can’t get the pin till they verify your positive test. After 4 days and still not being in their system we gave up reporting it. Fortunately the 2 in my family were only around me and we were under quarantine already so no one else was exposed.
Fortunately my eldest who spread it to us was able to have it confirmed and got the pin but no luck for the other 2.
by ThunderSi2
As a healthcare software engineer, I cannot fathom why SlowCOVIDNC could possibly need to store over 6 GB of data. Admittedly, it’s been on my phone a while, but it would seem reasonable after some time to drop proximity data. Perhaps a month or so would suffice; keep it long at first, then shorten the cutoff based on empirical evidence of transmission.
Also, there’s no reasonable way to contact the developer to convey that.
by Alli Kitten
I was so excited to have SlowCOVIDNC as a resource to help me stay healthy and protect those I love. My friend and I downloaded it on the same day. Months later she tested positive for COVID. The department of health was informed. She let me know and I’m glad she did because SlowCOVIDNC DIDN’T. I kept checking and looking for an alert or something after she told me. Nothing. So bummed that this didn’t live up to its standards.
by Mookanoah
SlowCOVIDNC is an amazing idea it’s great security wise and just an overall greta concept, BUT it needs to have widespread use. SHARE SlowCOVIDNC THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA, TEXT, ECT. It sits away, you never need to get on it. Just download and then fill out the info.
by Czlong
SlowCOVIDNC works as designed very well. Please add a way for users to add their vacation record or pull from the authoritative data source. This would alleviate counterfeit vaccination cards.
by SGLPGT
I get an error message when I try to turn notifications on. I had previously installed the VA app, so maybe that’s messing it up? But SlowCOVIDNC is useless, and I can’t find a way to get help for the issue.— nevermind, had to go find SlowCOVIDNC settings and change my region.
by KC1974
This is obviously dependent on everyone having SlowCOVIDNC and them reporting. That said, if they catch covid, if they’re a good citizen they should install it and report, but that’s pretty much locking the door after the horse has bolted, but it would be something. Also, with me living very close to the SC border who don’t have an app, I’m not so sure this will work that well. Add to that apartment/condo or townhouse living and a neighbor you have had no contact with reporting, you could get notifications because their phone is the other side of the wall, but it’s better than nothing. Realistically, the CDC should have had a national app. Why they don’t may be due to budget cuts? Who knows. Still - as I said it’s better than nothing and kudos to NC state dept of health for getting this out. Seemingly one of the few states that bothered.
by Tri2MakeADifference
Prior to SlowCOVIDNC coming out, downloaded SlowCOVIDNC for Virginia and the other states that have similar. Really worth getting them all as they should alert you on travelers as well.
Living in Wake Forest we get folks from Virginia in our Target and other stores every day.
Hopefully, soon, the state apps will all work in unison.
by SomaBID
SlowCOVIDNC is very useful, and glad NC saw the value in setting this up. I would request that in an update that SlowCOVIDNC user be asked o if they have been vaccinated, and when. Maybe even vaccine time and # of doses. It would be helpful to know if a possible exposure included people who were vaccinated...
by Usernickname
Rating it 5 stars to hopefully increase visibility, but...
I've had SlowCOVIDNC installed since it came out. But I've just now turned it off because 1. no one seems to have heard of it (so they're not using it), 2. It eats my battery, and 3. I rarely leave the house.
Even though it's a battery hog I'm not complaining about that-- I understand that it needs to use Bluetooth aggressively to do what it needs to do-- but if 99.9% of the time it's consuming battery charge while I'm at home and there's no one else around, and the rest of the time it's probably futile because most other people don't have it, then unfortunately it's not helpful. Bit of a chicken and egg problem....
by JSam2012
So - 5stars because I want everyone in NC to download it - contact tracing is something we need
But
I have had it downloaded for months. Was just talking to a nurse at a pediatrician’s office, and she didn’t even know SlowCOVIDNC existed!
Dept of Health needs to be notifying every doctor in the state that SlowCOVIDNC is a tool in our state’s COVID toolkit - it only works if most folks have it installed
by Dww1588
An exposure notification app seems like a great idea. But SlowCOVIDNC is only useful when lots of people have it. So why has it been out a month and I am just hearing about it at tje bottom of a story on WLOS? I was just at doctor last week and no one mentioned it. Asking GPs and others to tell their patients to download SlowCOVIDNC seems like a low cost way to spread the word!
by Baba's Mom
No reason not to download and do it for those you love and care about.
by Uupistheshit
I love SlowCOVIDNC!
by Melissa_garcia_slays123
Love SlowCOVIDNC
No. SlowCOVIDNC does not seem very safe to us. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 302 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.2/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for SlowCOVIDNC Is 15.4/100.
No. SlowCOVIDNC does not seem legit based on our analysis. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 302 SlowCOVIDNC User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for SlowCOVIDNC Is 31.6/100..
SlowCOVIDNC works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or Contact Support.
By enabling Bluetooth and Exposure Notifications, you can anonymously share a positive COVID-19 test result to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
Users can anonymously share a positive COVID-19 test result to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
Step 3: Through Bluetooth, your phone and the phones around you with the SlowCOVIDNC app are working in the background (without draining your battery or data) to exchange these anonymous tokens every few minutes.
Step 4: SlowCOVIDNC periodically downloads tokens from the server that have been uploaded from the devices of users who have tested positive.
It allows users to know if they may have been in close contact with someone who has shared a positive COVID-19 test result through the app.
SlowCOVIDNC is the official COVID-19 Exposure Notification app for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS).
You may also be notified if you have been in close contact with someone who has shared a positive COVID-19 test result.
Step 5: If you have tested positive for COVID-19, you may obtain your PIN from your local public health department and submit that into the app.
Your phone then uses its records of the signal strength and duration of exposures with those tokens to conduct a risk calculation and determine if you have met a threshold for notification.
Tokens will collect and share date, time, signal strength and duration of proximity.
This voluntary and anonymous reporting notifies others who have downloaded the app and may have been in close contact with you in the last 14 days that they might be at risk.
Step 1: Download the SlowCOVIDNC Exposure Notification app.
Step 2: After opting-in to receive notifications, the app will generate an anonymous token for your device.
Using SlowCOVIDNC is entirely voluntary, and you can enable or disable it at any time.
