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KU using new COVID-19 screening app for fall semester

The University of Kansas will use a mobile app this fall called CVKey for coronavirus screening of new and returning students and staff, the app to be used along with iPad kiosks to permit entry into buildings based on the app’s health assessment of individuals.

A new app that has emerged from the coronavirus era is CVKey, an app designed by KU alum and former Google VP Brian McClendon that serves as a coronavirus screening tool.

This fall, KU students and staff will be using it frequently as the app will be used in part to allow entry into buildings.

For it to work, everyone on campus will have to download the CVKey app and be honest about their health, reports 41 Action News.

“We’re trying to bring 20, 30,000 people back onto campus in a short amount of time,” Andrew Foster, KU’s emergency management coordinator, said. “The number one question that we’ve gotten from our community throughout this whole thing is, ‘Am I allowed to be somewhere? Can I be on campus?'”

KU will be the first university in the world to use it for coronavirus screening, the app to work in conjunction with iPad kiosks located outside buildings.

These kiosks will then scan a QR code on a mobile device, the code generated from the app which will base entry off a daily health assessment quiz that students, faculty, staff and even visitors will be asked to fill out.

“The iPad scans to verify that your QR code shows you have status to go in, but it doesn’t even log the scan,” McClendon said. “All it really does is keep a count, so it has an accurate count of how many people it scanned into the building.”