Product design question

Design a healthcare application that would be useful for handling COVID-19.

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What this question tests

Tests product design under urgent public-health constraints, balancing usefulness, trust, and speed to deploy.

Clarify scope: assume symptom-checking and exposure guidance for the general public during an active outbreak, not clinical or hospital-facing tools.
Identify the user and job: someone with possible symptoms who needs quick guidance on whether to test, isolate, or seek care, without overwhelming emergency services.
Prioritize by urgency and trust: accurate triage guidance is the highest-stakes feature, so ground it in verified public health protocols, not generic self-diagnosis.
Propose a guided symptom-checker producing a risk tier, low, moderate, or high, integrated with a nearby testing site locator and telehealth referral.
Address privacy: health data is highly sensitive, so minimize retention and be explicit about what's shared with health authorities versus kept private.
Define success: reduction in unnecessary ER visits for low-risk symptoms, and testing site utilization driven by the app.

Prioritizes triage accuracy and trust, verified protocols, over feature breadth, correctly identifying the highest-stakes element.
Names a concrete risk-tiering mechanism rather than a vague give-health-advice feature.
Addresses privacy explicitly, a major real concern for health data during a public crisis.
Defines success with a system-level outcome metric, reduced unnecessary ER load, tying the app to real public health value.

Building broad wellness features like fitness tracking instead of focusing on the urgent triage need.
Ignoring privacy and trust concerns around sensitive health data collection during a crisis.

How would you keep guidance accurate as public health recommendations change quickly?
How would you handle a false negative that delays someone from seeking care?