As the US faces record COVID-19 infections, effective use of exposure notification apps is unlikely, given slow adoption and poor data on their efficacy
Virginia's COVIDwise app was reinstalled on my new phone but didn't prompt me to enable notifications. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Gerrit De Vynck / @gerritd : Exposure notification apps have been around for nearly two years, and there's mounting evidence they save lives. But the Biden administration has essentially ignored them. NEW with @Cat_Zakrzewski https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @washingtonpost : The tech giants managed to build and launch the “exposure notification” framework in months, a previously unheard-of level of collaboration for the rivals. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Tripp Mickle / @trippmickle : “More than 20 states don't use it at all.” @GerritD and @Cat_Zakrzewski on the Google/Apple contact tracing system that scored more headlines than usage https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Mark Seibel / @markseibel : Why technology hasn't been very helpful in covid contact tracing: In Texas and Florida, the covid notification app isn't even available. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
An entire goddamn free system for being instantly and anonymously alerted to whether or not you've been exposed to COVID was developed and we just sat there and did nothing. Even in states that implemented it, almost *nobody* is using it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Excellent thread on #ContactTracing with several eye-poppers, using social psychology and academic conservatism to explain how we got here: “we are probably in the early part of the decade of COVID.” Man, a COVID DECADE. Just let that settle in. 😷 https://twitter.com/...
My wife got a phone notification the other day about a covid exposure from 15 days earlier, which seems pointless. (She'd tested for unrelated reasons several times since the exposure, all negative.) Are these apps working the way they're supposed to? https://www.washingtonpost.c…
1/ With the omicron surge, I have had more friends send me screenshots of exposure notifications (EN) in the last week than I have in the last year. Here are some reflections based on the work I led at @Apple working with @Google and some thoughts on the road ahead. 🧵
“Howard said the systems might be more effective in the USA if there was a federal privacy law that would make more people comfortable that their data would only be used to track the spread of the virus, & not be misused” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Yep. (This Howard is @…
Appreciate trying to get after this news cycle, but literally nothing has changed in the exposure notification/tracking app space. They suck, they always sucked, and they will continue to suck. The tech doesn't work. https://twitter.com/...
Speaking from (ahem) personal experience, it is easy to forget to activate an exposure notification app when you switch Android phones—Virginia's COVIDwise app was reinstalled on my new phone but didn't prompt me to enable notifications. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Exposure notification apps have been around for nearly two years, and there's mounting evidence they save lives. But the Biden administration has essentially ignored them. NEW with @Cat_Zakrzewski https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
The tech giants managed to build and launch the “exposure notification” framework in months, a previously unheard-of level of collaboration for the rivals. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
“More than 20 states don't use it at all.” @GerritD and @Cat_Zakrzewski on the Google/Apple contact tracing system that scored more headlines than usage https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Why technology hasn't been very helpful in covid contact tracing: In Texas and Florida, the covid notification app isn't even available. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...