“I had just finished blowing my nose and was waiting for the worker to give me the nasal swab,” Armstrong stated, wearily scrolling down the Verily mobile site. “And right then I got an alert on my phone and looked down to see a message from Team Healthy at Brown asking why I wasn’t using this time to schedule my next COVID test.”

“I just ignored it,” Armstrong continued. “But by the time I swirled the swab around my nostrils, put it in the tube, and took it to the rack at the other end of the gym, I had three more alerts telling me I hadn’t scheduled my next test yet.”

At press time, Armstrong got a Team Healthy notification to update his daily symptom tracker in the middle of the night.