„As an example, during the #Euro football tournament in 2021, days with England matches showed sharp spikes in exposures and transmissibility. Digital contact tracing technologies can help control epidemics not only by directly preventing transmissions but also by enabling rapid analysis at scale and with unprecedented resolution.“

#EURO2021 #ContactTracing #COVID19

Christophe #Fraser: New in #ScienceMagazine: app-based contact tracing for covid 🤒🤳📲 as well as reducing transmission, generated data for epidemic monitoring & analysis in real-time with unprecedented resolution.

#covid19 #ContactTracing

#nhs #COVID19 #app for England and Wales

#CoronaWarnApp

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm8103

Rural #Michigan has lost millions of #factoryfarm animals this year to #birdflu outbreak, and #dairyfarmers resent new #disinfection & #contacttracing mandates from #SwingState #Democrat Gov Whitmer and Biden Admin as spread of outbreak threatens livelihoods and local economies during an election year

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bird-flu-response-michigan-sparks-covid-era-worry-farms-2024-07-10/

RT by @ECDC_EU: @WHOGOARN partnered with @ECDC_EU for a 2 day training on #ContactTracing & #GoData.

[2024-06-04 13:59 UTC]

In our latest #preprint https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.11.24302649v2, we evaluate whether scaled up testing would be enough to control a future #pandemic, avoiding both lockdowns and mass infection, and robust to failures of #ContactTracing. An appendix covers logistics, which seem achievable with sufficient investment/preparation. Let's do better next time.

#ContactTracing software could accurately gauge #COVID19 risk
#Epidemiologists in the# UK analyzed 7 million people who were notified that they were exposed to #COVID-19 by the NHS COVID-19 app in #England and #Wales between April 2021 and February 2022. Researchers found the app did, in fact, accurately translate the duration and proximity of a COVID-19 exposure to a relevant epidemiological risk score. Time spent with infected individuals is a key determinant of risk. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/contact-tracing-software-could-accurately-gauge-covid-19-risk/

#ContactTracing #software could accurately gauge #COVID19 risk: Time spent with infected individuals is a key determinant of risk, 20231220,
by Diana G,
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/contact-tracing-software-could-accurately-gauge-covid-19-risk/
#CoViD2019

... #NHS_UK study of software usefulness in 2021.

They wouldn't dream of canceling the event of course, which is the best way to prevent spread.

However, we could have required and provided #HighQualityMasks, testing prior to the event (with folks submitting results), testing upon arrival, and testing post event with #ContactTracing.

The venue had great ventilation so the addition of a mask requirement and #CovidTesting would have gone a long way in preventing a lot of spread.

Prior to the event, multiple staff members also got Covid, and it led to a lot of issues with planning and prep, in addition to exposing multiple folks to Covid. This could have also been prevented if our office still required folks to #MaskUp when in the office.

@platypusparent @kirt@zeroes.ca @kirt@aus.social

I'm conflicted over whether #Sydney ever actually thought contact tracing would work? or if they screwed up on purpose because they wanted to "live" with COVID from the start?

For something that contagious #contactTracing only works when combined with a hard #Lockdown and a #zeroCOVID policy. As soon as you find one case = instant total lockdown. Then you contact trace to work out who needs to stay in isolation, then 99.99% of people get out of locky within days.

@thoughtfulnz #NZ Covid tracer app now history 🥺

https://covid19.govt.nz/testing-and-isolation/contact-tracing/nz-covid-tracer-app/

“We have removed the NZ COVID Tracer app. It will soon be unavailable from Google Play and Apple store.
Google and Apple are ending technical support for the Bluetooth function of the NZ COVID Tracer app in September 2023.”

#Covid19NZ #ContactTracing #Bluetooth #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver
cc @curiouskiwi @kyhwana @marcdaalder @FarahHancock @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @mike_honey_

Research finds strong support for cell phone app-based contract tracing for COVID-19 in both the US and Europe across all population subgroups, irrespective of regional COVID-19 mortality rates.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32759102

#NICHDImpact #COVID19 #App #ContactTracing #Epidemiology #PublicHealth

#Brexit distracted #UK ministers from #Covid19 planning, official tells #CovidInquiry

Government focused on no-deal preparation and did not foresee need for #PPE, #ContactTracing or possible #lockdowns
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/16/brexit-distracted-uk-ministers-from-covid-planning-official-tells-inquiry
#ToryChoices #ToryPoliciesInAction #BrexitCostsLives
#ToryInfighting

Interesting study on COVID contact tracing, manually, or via apps. In NL, merely 2% of the PCR tests were done after a notification originating from the Dutch tracing app (CoronaMelder), and just 2.5% after being traced manually.

The study concludes that contact tracing, digitally or manually, had little effect (“limited impacts”).

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.27.23289149v1

#covid19 #coronaMelder #contactTracing #medrxiv

Heute, am Tag nachdem die #CoronaWarnApp schlafengelegt wurde, feiere ich, dass es einer internationalen Gruppe von Wissenschaftler:innen gelungen ist, mit #dp3t ein funktionierendes System für eine #Kontaktverfolgung zu entwerfen, die nicht auf #Überwachung basiert und Vorlage für die deutsche #CWA wurde.

Besonders danken möchte ich Marcus, Marvin und allen anderen Freiwilligen, die die offizielle CWA zur @CCTG weiterentwickelt haben, obwohl sie nichts von den 220 Millionen € abbekommen haben.

Erst mit der #CCTG stand eine App zur Verfügung, die alle Kriterien für vertrauenswürdige Apps erfüllt, die @digitalcourage (mit mir) definiert hat: https://digitalcourage.de/digitale-selbstverteidigung/app-kriterien

Vielen Dank auch an die #FOSS-Projekte @fdroidorg und @microg, die wichtige Voraussetzungen für die CCTG geschaffen haben.

CCTG-Website: https://bubu1.eu/cctg/

/cc @Bubu #Corona #Covid19 #ContactTracing #trustworthyApps #reproducibleBuilds

From the press release on the White Paper on Singapore's response to COVID-19:

"The TraceTogether (TT) programme faced slow adoption initially, and suffered a setback with the disclosure that TT data could be used for criminal investigations following earlier reassurances that the data would only be used for contact tracing."

https://www.pmo.gov.sg/Newsroom/Release-on-White-Paper-on-Singapore-response-to-COVID-19

#Singapore #WhitePaper #Governments #COVID19 #TraceTogether #Privacy #ContactTracing

@harishpillay

Sarah Zabel, Siegmar Otto, and I studied the @coronawarnapp at the beginning of 2021: Moral intensity has had a strong influence on download and should be taken more into account with regard to #contacttracing apps. #covid19

https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1gcEJ_G-sG2H2I

@karl_lauterbach@beta.birdsite.live @karl_lauterbach@tweets.icu @karl_lauterbach@twtr.plus
@RKI

Landesdatenschützerin: Luca-App in Brandenburg nur in einem Fall erfolgreich | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Landesdatenschuetzerin-Luca-App-in-Brandenburg-nur-in-einem-Fall-erfolgreich-7458017.html #LucaApp #ContactTracing #Kontaktverfolgung #Datenschutz #privacy

In 2022, i spent some time analysing the algorithms of #ContactTracing apps like #CoronaWarnApp to understand how they shape our experience as subjects in time and space. Submitted the paper a few days back.

Today, I found this amazing article. This stuff is wild!! I need to add a new reference.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-17982-2_2

#philosophy #digitalHealth #ethics