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Governor Inslee Announces Statewide COVID-19 Exposure Notification Tool

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  Announced today, this smartphone tool is an important step in combating the pandemic.  I have already activated it on my iPhone, and wanted to share this information with the Creekside community ASAP.  WA Notify uses privacy-preserving technology and works without collecting or revealing any location or personal data.  Also, activating the tool on your smartphone is completely voluntary.  If you activate the tool, don't forget to activate Bluetooth as well, if not already switched on. Reprinted from  https://medium.com/wagovernor/inslee-announces-statewide-covid-19-exposure-notification-tool-34b5740aa02 This video explains how it works: Gov. Jay Inslee, along with the Washington State Department of Health (DOH), today announced the launch of WA Notify, a simple, anonymous exposure notification tool to help stop the spread of COVID-19. By adding WA Notify to their smartphones, Washington residents will be alerted if they spent time near another WA Notify user who later tests posit