CDC User Reviews

CDC
CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Customer Experience

Positive experience21.4% of reviews
Neutral9.5% of reviews
Negative experience69.0% of reviews

~ Based on 84 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is CDC Safe?

CDC has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for CDC is 59/100.

This assessment is based on 410 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.9/5.

Safety Analysis

45.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
48.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 409 App Store ratings for CDC.

Is CDC Legit?

CDC appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for CDC is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Propaganda

Site has been taken over by political hacks. Can’t believe anything being posted on it.

Insane and inaccurate notification message on your website

This is an abomination that the preseident and Kennedy, continue to put American lives in danger by gutting vital CDC staff and research. Publicly referring to the minority party as responsible for the shutdown, when you govern from all branches govt, is childish and not taken seriously.

CDC News

Experts advise to citizens without the Vodou

Used to be informative, essential and up to date

I'm disappointed in that this app is no longer keeping us up to date and safe regarding the recent bird flu outbreak that has been in the news. Isn't this the whole point of having this app on your phone?

Awkward to use with iPads

So here we are in almost the year 2025, but the app is designed with no landscape-view support, as if Steve Jobs has just introduced the first iPhone just last week (no such thing as an iPad yet).

Please add landscape view and proper iPadOS support. iPad owners the world over will love and appreciate your doing so.

That is, of course, if your websites don’t go dark with the coming administration. Even then, it’ll still look better in landscape mode.
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disappointed to say the least

okay, look… I keep up with my vaccines, so I’m not one of “those individuals” but I am wowed that the info on here about covid is so…. lacking at this point? the pandemic is not quite over. the attention paid to mpox is encouraging but very very little is being said of the huge surges in literally all other sexually transmitted diseases nationwide right now. I definitely believe that the mpox vaccine should be offered openly to anyone of any persuasion right now… some people have open relationships, about half of the others in relationships cheat on their partners, and more people are pan and/or bi than most professionals would ever believe (or admit); guys…. this is part of how your predecessors dropped the ball on HIV, by painting it as a gay man’s disease, this is irresponsible and shameful. we’re not about to run out of mpox vaccines, offer them to everyone sexually active, for obvious reasons. also; the lack of regular info and warnings on the dangers of tobacco or nicotine use, ESPECIALLY vaping (which is probably more dangerous more quickly than smoking cigarettes ever was for previous generations and is going to become a huge problem for the daily health and wellbeing of many, many people under 30 within the next five years [and the CDC will act totally blindsided by this when one in fifty thirty year olds have the lungs of a 70 year old chain smoker]) is quite troubling. the normal overprescribing and the resulting addiction to legal prescription drugs by the medical indust- ahem, the medical community, and alcoholism, the forgotten addiction, because it is legal and more or less socially encouraged for all adults through peer pressure and marketing, seems to also be largely ignored as a major public health concern. I am a former bartender and I work at a gas station right now, alcoholism is a major problem, trust my daily regular customers if not me. I won’t even do more than just mention the CDC avoiding discussing the risks of young people falling into sports gambling addiction, which is a ready-made mental health epidemic in progress as I type this. HOWEVER, the absolute last straw that made me write this review, and to finally uninstall the app, is the Reefer Madness post in late April (‘23). A full century after the racially motivated transformation of all of American law enforcement to combat poor and black and brown people by way of banning liquor and cannabis, in 2023, the american CDC releases a Reefer Madness warning about a made up condition and calls cannabis “the most overused federally illegal drug”. okay….. nice syntax, very incredibly specific and totally not propagandistic in any way at all!! It’s legal in more places than not. It’s prescribed by physicians and/or licensed practitioners in more places than it’s legal recreationally. Forms of it are very much federally legal and regulated in ALL 50 states. It has been proven medically for generations now to be safer than aspirin and cold medicine, even for pregnant people. BUT POT IS THE PROBLEM WE NEED THE CDC TALKING ABOUT NOW!? Are you serious….? Is the ghost of Harry Anslinger running the CDC or what? Are y’all getting political kickbacks from the pill and vape and liquor companies but not those from legal medicinal farmers….? (probably) Nothing about how obesity and overconsumption of refined sugars and polysaturated fat is as dangerous as smoking cigarettes, and nearly unavoidable in the daily american diet. Nothing about how guns kill more children and young adults than anything else, nor about how most gun deaths are actually suicides. No links or helpful info EVER to resources on mental health, or even physical healthcare in red states where healthcare is restricted for many citizens. No mentions of adult ADHD or Autism, as apparently they are both childhood diseases that go away after adolescence…. THIS IS WHERE OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE GOING TO!? This kind of mismanagement is why 1 in 3 americans believe vaccines are where diseases come from and less than one in five people have the latest COVID vaccine. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Reefer Madness….. give me a break. this is why america is the world’s laughingstock. congratulations, you have failed us yet again, CDC. keep it up. we need a new federal health agency, you will never recover from this reputation with americans or other citizens abroad, regardless of politics. stop being the problem, CDC. we need solutions right now.
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Covid

This app is terrible to understand when your sick and need help! It’s a messed up system!

Instant Crash

iOS 12.5.6

No trust

You can’t trust the information so why have it on your phone. DELETE!!!

Covid-19 tracker symptoms

Tracer and symptoms doesn’t work anymore 👎

Why Have App If No Link To Web Site

Minimalistic indeed. Two star rating is being generous.

No updated info since early 2021

This app is misleading and need of an update. We’ve already had a delta variant and Omicron, this app needs to be updated.

Behind the Times?

Seems to me that this app doesn't do much to encourage people to go get vaccinated for COVID-19.

I've been following the Data Tracker for this new disease almost since the first phases, when the big news was still in China and on cruise ships. It makes no sense to me that the CDC is still listing, among its "easy-access" [my expression] data points, the percentage of Americans who have received "at least one" of the three separate injections required for optimum immunity.

If the CDC continues to publish that lackadaisical statistic, it should also present the results of a study showing the percentages of people who still contracted COVID-19 within, say, one year after receiving (1) only the first inoculation, not the second one and not the booster; (2) the first two shots but not the booster; (3) all three shots.

Either do the study--or save that money, because you would otherwise be spending it (again) to re-rationalize the current protocol. Instead, post the following message loud and clear on the CDC website: "Folks, if you want optimal immunity ASAP, you gotta get two full shots plus a booster--spaced properly apart. And this virus isn't going to go away. We're already trying to figure out the subsequent inoculations that we'll all need in order to maintain immunity over the next two, three, four years."

How else is the CDC going to motivate full and ongoing compliance with its recommendations, now and in future years?

KSSHRINK
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Great App

I think that this app is truly informative, especially for public health, or any related health major. It can be used after school, and can help retrieve reliable statistics!

Pretty good

Pretty simple to use and had information on a variety of topics. Allows you to look at national and global data about diseases.

??

What’s this Spanish “Baloney” ? English only in the USA !!

The CDC has failed humanity.

The CDC has become a highly politicized agency that has disregarded hundreds and hundreds of superb quality studies pertaining to early outpatient treatment for Covid-19.

The CDC, as well as other prominent agencies, have actively suppressed a treasure trove of Covid-19 early treatment preprints that are waiting to be peer reviewed. This is an extraordinary, and unprecedented, situation. They have allocated limitless effort to make sure these studies never see the light of day.

We need to start asking ourselves the following question:

“Why are these extremely high quality studies, which were conducted by many of the world’s leading scientists and medical doctors, being suppressed rather than put through the peer review process?”
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CDC has zero credibility

The CDC gas lost all trust. What a joke!

Insecure

It doesn't work if your privacy settings block Google servers. Citizens should not have to let themselves be spied on by Google to access government websites and apps.

Cannot do Covid symptom checker

App stops at age. Won’t move forward, just freezes indefinitely.