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The project lead of Singapore's TraceTogether initiative goes into detail about the problems with an automated system, and why a human-in-the-loop is ideally re
by crushthecurve 6y ago
The project lead of Singapore's TraceTogether initiative goes into detail about the problems with an automated system, and why a human-in-the-loop is ideally required to evaluate the type of contact and make a determination.
A determination around being a close contact results in 14-day isolation regardless of symptoms, presumably because you may initially test negative before moving into an infectious and asymptomatic or symptomatic phase.
https://blog.gds-gov.tech/automated-contact-tracing-is-not-a-coronavirus-panacea-57fb3ce61d98 https://blog.gds-gov.tech/automated-contact-tracing-is-not-a...
- crushthecurve 6y agoIt's worth re-iterating how unreliable bluetooth signal strength is in estimating proximity. One recent data point using the CovidSafe app is here: https://twitter.com/jim_mussared/status/1256199078314078210 https://twitter.com/jim_mussared/status/1256199078314078210 Exploration around the defects in that app is ongoing here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u5a5ersKBH6eG362atALrzuXo3zuZ70qrGomWVEC27U/edit# https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u5a5ersKBH6eG362atALrzuX...
- orasis 6y ago14 day isolation was a policy choice. There is no reason that other municipalities do the same. We can discover a balance that keeps local r < 1.0