Americans in most states will no longer receive Covid exposure notifications on their smartphones now that the U.S. public health emergency has ended.

Since 2020, nearly 30 states have used a Bluetooth system developed by Apple
and Google
to track the spread of Covid infections and send push alerts to any smartphone user who came in close contact with a person who tested positive for the virus.

The Association of Public Health Laboratories hosted the national server that the system ran on.

On Thursday, the organization said “the majority of states” stopped using the exposure notification system after the Biden administration ended the public health emergency on May 11.

[YGTBFKM – I can’t even. People were actually doing this to begin with? ~ Beege]