Unlike a normal weather reporter, Sickweather aims to provide real-time alerts of sickness whenever you enter a Sick zone. Sickweather covers a lot of diseases, including Flu, Norovirus, Pink Eye, Whooping Cough, and 19 other illnesses. Tehe TODAY show recommended this app especially to parents. But in fact, it’s there for everyone who cares for the health of themselves and the people around them.
Sickweather allows you to follow, report illnesses, and post messages directly to the locations that matter most to you, such as schools, workplaces, restaurants, hospitals and more!
SickScore Wedget can be added to your home screen if you want. Thus you can be informed in time of the threat level of contagious illness in your immediate area.
SickScore uses different colors to distinguish varying threat levels, for some viruses can survive on surfaces for up to 48 hours and can have a viral life cycle of 2 weeks. RED is used for recent reports within 1 day, ORANGE within 2 days, YELLOW within 1 week and BLUE for reports older than 2 weeks.
Sickweather has been honored among "100 Brilliant Companies" by Entrepreneur Magazine, "Top 5 Sites Crowdsourcing for Your Health" by George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services, and has been recognized for identifying the early start flu season, 6 weeks before the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC).
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