COVID-19

The Black community is disproportionately affected by COVID-19, with complications and deaths due to the virus 2 to 3 times greater than in other racial/ethnic groups. The Black Women’s Health Study seeks to provide insight and solutions to decrease the impact of COVID-19 on Black communities. Whether you have COVID-19 or not, we encourage you to take a few minutes each day to log your health status in the new COVID-19 symptom tracker. This secure app is free to download and many large studies, including the Black Women’s Health Study, are asking participants to use the app so that researchers and public health officials can get good information on the spread of this disease and its symptoms. If you enroll as a member of the Black Women’s Health Study, we will later be able to link the data you enter into the tracker with data you have already given us. We can then identify factors that affect developing COVID-19 and learn if the virus has any long-term health impacts. Your friends and family can download the app and participate too, even if they are not involved in the Black Women’s Health Study.

Please visit https://covid.joinzoe.com/us for more information.

To learn more about the COVID-19 tracker app effort, read these recent publication in the journal Science and the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention.