Creating an app that could help fight the coronavirus

April 29, 2020 / 2:04 pm

caption: FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2016 file photo, the new Google Pixel phone is displayed next to a Google Home smart speaker, left, following a product event in San Francisco.

The University of Washington and volunteers from Microsoft have teamed up to create an app that could help contact tracers slow the spread of coronavirus.

Record host Bill Radke spoke to Sham Kakade, a University of Washington professor who's leading the CovidSafe app project.

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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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Sarah Leibovitz
Supervising Producer, Soundside

Sarah joined KUOW in 2019 as senior producer on The Record. She is now Supervising KUOW’s new noon time show, Soundside. Prior to working at KUOW, Sarah was lead producer at the Seattle podcast production company Larj Media, and a teaching artist with Path with Art.
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