Remember smart phone tracing apps?
Update: This says several U.S. states have rolled out contact tracing apps. Plus, Google and Apple just announced they are now rolling out contact tracing apps to all Android and…
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Update: This says several U.S. states have rolled out contact tracing apps. Plus, Google and Apple just announced they are now rolling out contact tracing apps to all Android and…
We have social distancing, physical distancing, six foot spacing, face masks, schools closed and more. But what if these public health measures do not work or do not work well?…
This batch of manufactured vaccines will be targeted at low-income countries. Since February, the foundation has donated more than $350 million to support the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic.…
Covid-19 tracking app sharing possible location data with Google Source: Covid-19 tracking app sharing possible location data with Google Smart phone, Bluetooth-based tracking apps do not work well and seem…
The GPS-based contact tracking system was hardly used; the app will continue to have a Bluetooth “close encounter” detector but unless a majority install the app, its mostly useless. “We’ve…
In May, a report said Iceland had achieved the largest penetration of any virus-tracking app, with 38% of its 364,000 inhabitants installing it. But the Iceland app, which collected people’s…