MyCovid Passport

Covid-19 (coronavirus) has created a lot of unease around how best to help ourselves and each other know when to get medical help, how to self-manage symptoms when necessary, and how to get back to social life. Consistent self check-ins for self-tracking and monitoring symptoms (or lack of symptoms), just once or twice a week, empower us to make the best day to day decisions during this new normal that is Covid-19. And, should we need it, medical teams can get on the same page quickly to provide care. MyCovid Passport content was created and validated by doctors, social scientists, and researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center and PreeMe+You, using PreeMe+You’s proprietary illness severity color system.

Key Area Framework
There are five key areas that are important to self-assess and track: status (level of exposure to Covid-19), breathing (cough/shortness of breath), temperature (fever), body (additional symptoms), and mood (mental health matters too).

4 colors
Red, Orange, Yellow, and Blue. This color scale is easily recognizable to your medical team. Each color corresponds to a different level of severity. Red is high severity and requires medical attention and/or self-isolation. Orange is moderate severity/high self-quarantine. Yellow is low severity/light self-quarantine. Blue means you are well. After answering questions, each key area will be designated a color. Colors will stay the same or change to reflect how you feel.

A passport for collective trust
Establishing a personalized health history creates transparency and a common language, guiding actions that help ourselves, our loved ones, and each other. Knowledge and coordinated efforts are powerful tools to ease worry amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.

Self check-ins have been shown to be critically important in fighting viruses like coronavirus. The new normal of our daily lives can feel ungrounding. Understanding your own and your loved ones’ health status (even when well) helps each of us better navigate our new circumstances and make more informed decisions that benefit all of us. Sharing our journeys with each other makes it easier to reach out for help, help others, or just know we are not alone.

The content of this app follows CDC, Infectious Disease of America, and other health guidelines, in addition to the expert synthesis of the most up to date research findings by doctors at the University of Chicago. It was also adapted from the research-based infrastructure of PreeMe+You, a social benefit health app focused on empowering and supporting parents of preemies under intensive care. The PreeMe architecture and app is clinically significant for helping reduce worry and improve health communication and self-monitoring.

To access the app, a code is currently required to help our team of experts address the changing needs of Covid-19 and the diversity of experiences surrounding it. We are working with various organizations and institutions that will be sponsoring codes for their communities. Until then, we are always happy to share an access code, just write to us at support@mycovidpassport.org and let us know how this tool might help you.