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Adam Kucharski
AdamJKucharski
I’m seeing some fatalism creep in around whether contact tracing system/app will work. But remember, most the reduction in transmission is likely to come from the first step - when
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Eugene Gu, MD
eugenegu
Google and Apple’s contact tracing technology has big implications for privacy rights and freedom. While it may be useful for tracking sick contacts during the coronavirus pandemic, this same technology
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Natalie E. Dean, PhD
nataliexdean
Overdispersion in action. In this church cluster, a single index case resulted in 53 (!) secondary blue cases. Yet, each blue case resulted in only a few tertiary cases. In
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Stephen Reicher
ReicherStephen
Many of you say this is the most brilliant thing you have read on the pandemic.Quite right. Everyone should read it and pass it on.Because it points to the key
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Dr. Stephanie Guertin
punkrockscience
DO. NOT. WANT....initially, this Bluetooth transfer of data to nearby phones will be opt-in, but "companies will work on building tracing functionality into the underlying operating system". Once that's there,
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Anthony Costello
globalhlthtwit
Anthony Fauci agrees that community testing and contact tracing is the best way to suppress the virus and re-open the economy.https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/490713-fauci-improved-testing-and-tracing-can-help-reopen-country I'm hearin
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Glenn Fleishman
GlennF
I just dug into the Apple/Google COVID-19 tracing system, and it’s a lot of good decisions. It provides anonymity, privacy, and protects against spoofing. Full report coming shortly at @TidBITS
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Michael Christen
mi_christen
#TestTraceIsolate will not be sufficient as a stand-alone strategy, but it could replace some of the measures we have taken to reduce contacts in general. Factors that influence the efficiency
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Judd Legum
JuddLegum
This is the best news I've heard in awhile. We need to ramp up testing dramatically but testing needs to be paired with contact tracing. Google and Apple are teaming
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Barton
Barton_options
People ask me how Chinese managed to control COVID for the last few months.Well, people there have to run mobile tracing apps on their cell phone 24/7, which generates a
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Privacy Matters 💙
PrivacyMatters
Product lead for Singapore's TraceTogether app."If you ask me whether any Bluetooth contact tracing system deployed or under development, anywhere in the world, is ready to replace manual contact tracing,
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News18.com
news18dotcom
The Aarogya Setu app has been downloaded more than 10,000,000 by Android users from the Google Play Store.But why is it such a big deal and why is it being
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Annemarie Bridy
AnnemarieBridy
Contact tracing is a necessary element of the public health response to COVID-19. Privacy experts are rightly vigilant, but they need to take care not to undermine public trust in
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Trent 💊🆔
trentyarwood
I'm getting pretty sick of the politicians now having joined the techbro legion in their reductionism of contact tracing to "working out who you were near". Good contact tracing is
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jonny spookfuls 🇵🇸🚩🧢⚓🌹
jonnydrawffles
Tracing a picture same weight line art is frankly always going to look like ass just learn to draw and make interesting shapes to counter the loss of dimension you're
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Gail Davies
gailfdavies
A few things are getting clearer about #Covid19 in #ukhighered - there are now many cases as @ucu predicted (esp in halls of residence), there is some more private university
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