{"id":5738,"date":"2020-03-30T13:48:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T17:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/?p=5738"},"modified":"2020-03-31T08:30:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:30:53","slug":"free-online-covid19-screening-services-on-symptom-checker-for-massachusetts-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/2020\/03\/30\/free-online-covid19-screening-services-on-symptom-checker-for-massachusetts-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Free online COVID19 screening services on symptom checker for Massachusetts residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Baker, Massachusetts Governor,\u00a0 announced a new partnership between the state\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/bostonomix\/2020\/03\/13\/buoy-health-coronavirus-screening\">and Buoy Health<\/a>, a Massachusetts-based e-health company that utilizes artificial intelligence to match people with the health services they need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/nephtc\/files\/2020\/03\/Governor-baker-636x454.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"454\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5743 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/files\/2020\/03\/Governor-baker-636x454.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/files\/2020\/03\/Governor-baker-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/files\/2020\/03\/Governor-baker-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/files\/2020\/03\/Governor-baker.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; text-align: center;\">Gov. Charlie Baker speaks during his daily news briefing at the State House on March 27. (Matt Stone\/Boston Herald)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buoyhealth.com\/symptom-checker\/?configuration=ma_covid&amp;concern=coronavirus\">https:\/\/www.buoyhealth.com\/symptom-checker\/?configuration=ma_covid&amp;concern=coronavirus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Buoy Health Care Tool:\u00a0<\/strong>The Baker-Polito Administration announced the launch of Buoy Health\u2019s new online resource for residents to check their symptoms and connect with the next appropriate health care resource. This tool does not replace emergency medical care, but it may be used as a support for residents during the COVID-19 outbreak to connect them with appropriate health care resources if they display coronavirus symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Buoy Health\u2019s online 24\/7 tool is free for Massachusetts residents and uses current COVID-19 guidance from the CDC and Massachusetts Department of Public Health. \u00a0Visit\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buoy.com\/mass\">Buoy.com\/mass<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to learn more and use the tool.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2020\/03\/27\/baker-out-of-state-quarantine\">https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2020\/03\/27\/baker-out-of-state-quarantine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/news\/baker-polito-administration-announces-travel-guidelines-and-new-health-care-resources-to\">https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/news\/baker-polito-administration-announces-travel-guidelines-and-new-health-care-resources-to<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Baker, Massachusetts Governor,\u00a0 announced a new partnership between the state\u00a0and Buoy Health, a Massachusetts-based e-health company that utilizes artificial intelligence to match people with the health services they need. Gov. Charlie Baker speaks during his daily news briefing at the State House on March 27. (Matt Stone\/Boston Herald) https:\/\/www.buoyhealth.com\/symptom-checker\/?configuration=ma_covid&amp;concern=coronavirus Buoy Health Care Tool:\u00a0The Baker-Polito [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[368,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5738"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5749,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738\/revisions\/5749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}