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A middle-aged woman arrived at a tent set up by St. John’s Well Child and Family Center for coronavirus testing on April 13, her mother in tow. When both tested positive, clinic staff began to ask more questions.Can you give us the names of people you have been in close contact with? We need to…

BackyardProduction | Getty ImagesGoogle, Facebook and Twitter have partnered with the nonprofit Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies (CSIP) to launch Tech Together (TechTogether.co), an online platform to offer support to individuals with substance use disorders. The site is a collection of resources to help those experiencing substance use disorder or battling addiction and the associated stigma.  Many of…

Earlier this week in a Washington Post editorial, Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg referenced an opt-in symptom survey being shown on Facebook that could help researchers at Carnegie Mellon forecast Covid-19 cases, based on location. If successful, the project would offer county-by-county insights and be imminently useful to public health officials and hospitals…

Google can now surface 2,000 COVID-19 testing centers across 43 US states when you search for COVID-19-related terms, the company told The Verge. Unfortunately, some states were left out — particularly Connecticut, Maine, Missouri, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon or Pennsylvania — because the tech giant will only display testing centers approved for publishing by health…