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Thanks, interesting. It might be the case that the app would only be useful once the levels of infection increase, or perhaps the app would only instruct the us
by chimprich 7y ago
Thanks, interesting. It might be the case that the app would only be useful once the levels of infection increase, or perhaps the app would only instruct the user to send an alert when they had developed a fever + dry cough, which seems more typical of this virus.
> But at some point, specialized per-person notification is no better than general advice to the entire population.
I take your point, but I think targetted "you have had a good chance of being exposed" is far more likely to result in action than "minimise contact with other people if possible".
A preprint of a paper which looks like has similar ideas but some more formal modelling: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.08.20032946v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.08.20032946v...
- eesmith 7y agoI looked at that paper but it gave no indication of how the app was supposed to implement algorithmic contact tracing. I think it assume that that method would always be better than the current system? If so, there's no presented evidence that that's true. I also can't figure out why you and are are downvoted for our low-key discussion in a days-old posting, so I've up-voted you.