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Apple and Google aren't making an app, just a framework apps can use to do contact tracing and exposure notifications. You'll need to wait for your local healt
by RandallBrown 6y ago
Apple and Google aren't making an app, just a framework apps can use to do contact tracing and exposure notifications.
You'll need to wait for your local health jurisdiction to make their official app.
I also remember reading something about Apple and Google only allowing 1 app per country (or more with special permission, I'm guessing 1 app per US state or something like that)
- dhosek 6y agoYes, in the US, it will be one per state (assuming that there isn't some state that thinks that this sort of thing should be handled by county or municipal health departments). One hopes that there won't actually be fifty separately developed codebases, but that states will pool resources and share the cost and effort of developing apps. If only there were some sort of governmental entity at a level above the states to coordinate these things.
- jedberg 6y agoMy guess is that the western compact states will share an app, and the eastern compact will share an app, or possibly even coordinate on a single app. At that point one app will cover 1/2 the US population, and there is a good chance many other states would just adopt that one app. But you're right, it would be nice is there were some authority one level up that could coordinate this.
- selectodude 6y agoThe US has turned into a broken version of the EU.