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

Think of how we replaced #ContactTracing with #ExposureNotification. Contact tracing has a qualitative foundation: public health workers establish rapport with infected people, win their trust, and get them to fully enumerate the places they've been and the activities they participated in.

By contrast, exposure notification measures whether two Bluetooth radios were within range of each other for a predetermined interval.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/berculosis-pandemic-covid-19-tb-health-1.6823579 “The ability to offer crucial services such as #ContactTracing, #prevention, early diagnosis, treatment and care for #tuberculosis were reduced as resources were redirected to fight the #COVID19 pandemic, said Dr. Tom Wong, chief medical officer of #PublicHealth for #Indigenous Services Canada.”

Seit dem Update der Android-App #CCTG auf v3.1.1.0 (F-Droid) bekomme ich die Fehlermeldung "Risiko-Ermittlung gestoppt". Der Versuch, diese wieder zu aktivieren, führt lediglich zu der Fehlermeldung "UNKNOWN_ERROR_CODE(39507)".

Bluetooth und GPS sind aktiviert, alle von der App benötigten Rechte erlaubt.

Hat jemand eine Idee, was ich noch machen könnte?
#Corona #ContactTracing
@CCTG

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

Despite of #coronalert already being stopped quite some time ago, lots of phones were still broadcasting rolling IDs in #Belgium. However it looks like someone really pulled the plug on Thursday, because the number of encounters registered, has collapsed completely. #COVID19 #ContactTracing

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

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

When I was a child in the late '90s, I watched a PBS documentary about #pandemics that terrified me so much I couldn't sleep. I remember my dad reassuring me that the US was a wealthy country that would invest in #ContactTracing, #Quarantines and other robust #PublicHealthMeasures to stop a #pandemic.

My dad didn't live to see #covid, but damn, I've thought about that every single day since March 2020 and how much I wish he'd been right.

#CovidIsNotOver

@rysiek @EchoTango5179 @AustinB @mikarv @aktivismoEstasMiaLuo #Belgium required #contactTracing forms to be submitted by those entering BE, but you could not submit the online form if you did not have phone number & email address for the required fields. Yet it was a legal obligation to complete the form. The gov site hosting the form concealed the existence of a printable PDF, which was hard to find. I wonder how non-compliance would pan out.

Find out about the use and impact of digital #ContactTracing apps 📱 across EU in the fight against COVID-19.
New report now published!!➡️ https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/item/769385/en
#COVID19 #crossborder #interoperability #strongerthogether😷

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eHealth_EU/status/1604767612126126080

>Wie man die norwegische Premierministerin in einem angeblich anonymisierten Datensatz finden kann

>Die norwegische Corona-App Smittestopp sammelte in einer ersten Version haufenweise personenbezogene Daten. Das Experiment wurde gestoppt, doch der Datensatz offenbar nicht gelöscht, sondern „anonymisiert“ und weiterverwendet. Ein Forscher zeigt nun, wie leicht die vermeintliche Anonymisierung zu knacken ist.

https://netzpolitik.org/2022/app-zur-corona-kontaktverfolgung-wie-man-die-norwegische-premierministerin-in-einem-angeblich-anonymisierten-datensatz-finden-kann/

#anonymisierung #contacttracing #dsgvo

As Officials Ease Restrictions, China Faces New Pandemic Risks https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/health/china-covid-lockdowns.html #ContactTracing(PublicHealth) #EconomicConditionsandTrends #VaccinationandImmunization #Coronavirus(2019-nCoV) #CoronavirusReopenings #Deaths(Fatalities) #Hospitals #Elderly #China

China links COVID outbreak to man's jog through a park; scientists skeptical

The man reportedly infected 39 people in one outdoor jog through a park.

#China #COVID #ContactTracing #ZeroCovid
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/china-claims-outdoor-jogger-sparked-covid-outbreak-but-offers-scant-evidence/

(This needed a CW before being boosted.)

https://med-mastodon.com/@rdmorris/109417915973171709

#COVID #COVID19 #COVIDisAirborne

#ContactTracing

In fact even #ContactTracing data saw a drastic uptick in infections linked to restaurant visits. It is right there in the raw data.

As a result, the second wave came faster & was more severe resulting in a 2nd #lockdown that came earlier & lasted longer and I think was much more harmful for the business that #EOTHO was meant to help.

Not heeding expert advice did kill people. Too date, there has been no thorough investigation.

We need to understand how such policies came into this world.

#N95, #KN95, #P100 #Masks are most effective against #COVID19. If we are to truly defeat this virus, we must first halt its spread. As long as #SARSCOV2 continues to spread unchecked, it shall continue to mutate, and faster than vaccines can keep up with.

What must be done to #StopTheSpread

1. MASKS, of the type mentioned above and properly worn, go a long way.

2. #AIRFILTRATION, filtering out particles in the air including viruses. This MUST be installed in all publicly accessible buildings, in all rooms and hallways.

3. #VENTILATION, meaning, ensuring that outside air can flow indoors in a way that carries it in and stale air out.

4. #QUARANTINING is still necessary to ensure that the virus cannot be spread. While this is happening, monthly checks of $2,000-$4,000 should be issued to every non-millionaire retroactive to the beginning of the #Pandemic in January 2020. This way, those who lost everything to the pandemic including jobs, homes, etc. can get back at least some of what they had.

5. #RENTCAPS AND #PRICECAPS ON BASIC NECESSITIES must be implemented so that the government is not subsidizing #Landlord profits and so that renters are not being gouged.

6. SAFE, EFFECTIVE #VACCINES designed to prevent infection where it enters the body, namely, the nose, mouth, and eyes.

7. #CONTACTTRACING to allow health care systems to get an idea of who's most at risk and where infections are highest.

This is not a comprehensive list, but it's a good start.