DALLAS (1080 KRLD) - There's a new web app that lets you know of the real-time COVID-19 exposure danger in Dallas County.
It's called MyPCI, and it was put together by the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation.
It provides an on-demand location-based risk assessment of possible COVID-19 exposure in Dallas County.
"This app is meant to provide individuals context about what's happening around them, relative to active COVID-19 cases," says Dr. Steve Miff, president and CEO of PCCI.
The web app uses geomapping and hot-spotting technology, using daily updated data from Dallas County Health and Human Services.
"It focuses specifically around somebody's home, and that's on purpose because that's where we spend most of our time," says Miff, "and also just that when we're in our homes, we tend to sometimes let our guard down, so to speak."
There's nothing to download; the app works on your mobile phone's web browser.
"It's free to register and use," Miff says, "and it's a secure cloud-based tool that does not require personal health information and also does not track an individual's mobile phone data."
To use the app, go to PCCI's website and click on the link to register, using the code GP-7xI6QT.
You can also access the web app at Parkland's website using registration code PARK-xaoHtR, or at the Dallas County Health and Human Services Department's website with the registration code DCHHS-62ta7b.
