Mayo Clinic launches Alexa Answers

The new service has Alexa answer questions about COVID-19 with answers from the CDC and Mayo Clinic.

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Technology has repeatedly been at the forefront of fighting the spread of covi?19.

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Mayo clinic is launching a new service putting your electronics to use for you.

All you need is an "amazon alexa" device.

Kimt news 3's madelyne watkins walks us through how it works.xxx if you have any questions at all relating to covi?19, the answer could be just one quick little question away as long as you have this device in your home.

All you have to do is say, "alexa, open up mayo clinic answers on covi?19."

Once you do that, you can ask any question you want.

Alexa, what are the symptoms of covi?19?

According to the cdc, symptoms of covi?19 include fever, cough and shortness of breath and typically appear within 2 to 14 days of exposure.

Doctor sandhya pruthi says new information on the virus comes out every day, so delivering this fast and trusted health information to the public is critical.

She says because this option is hand?free?

That's also helping reduce the spread of the virus through physical contact.

"the goal is to provide access to information from our mayo clinic experts on the pandemic and guidance from the centers for disease control and prevention."

Madelyne watkins kimt news 3.

If you don't have an alexa echo or dot, mayo clinic updates information everyday on its website and through various podcast platforms. and of course we will have the very latest on kimt dot com.///