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The app was recently evaluated for effectiveness.[1] 110-230k people were tested positive as a result of a warning and therefore isolated. They found that it ha
by sc11 5y ago
The app was recently evaluated for effectiveness.[1] 110-230k people were tested positive as a result of a warning and therefore isolated. They found that it had about the same effect as the tracing efforts by all public health authorities combined.
[1] article in German about it https://www.heise.de/news/RKI-Schaetzung-Warn-App-hat-mehr-als-100-000-Infektionsketten-unterbrochen-6070747.html https://www.heise.de/news/RKI-Schaetzung-Warn-App-hat-mehr-a...
- sanid 5y agoThese numbers don't seem to reflect the whole picture based on the data provided by the local institutions which show a rather small effectiveness. See here (german): https://netzpolitik.org/2021/robert-koch-institut-widersprueche-zur-wirkung-der-corona-warn-app/ https://netzpolitik.org/2021/robert-koch-institut-widersprue...