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My question was have contract tracing apps overseas performed significantly better than the QR based systems used in Australia (instead of COVIDSafe). Neither o
by jeeeb 5y ago
My question was have contract tracing apps overseas performed significantly better than the QR based systems used in Australia (instead of COVIDSafe). Neither of these links seem to show that.
The first is a criticism of COVIDSafe. I agree it was crap, but have Bluetooth based contract tracing actually worked well to prevent outbreaks anywhere? Is it actually better than QR code based systems?
The second paper you link at least attempts to model this but it’s just that, conclusions drawn from a simulation. In practice there have been many more cases and deaths in Washington State alone than all of Australia, and that’s without adjusting for the much larger population in Australia.
- ghuntley 5y ago> QR based systems used in Australia (instead of COVIDSafe) I deeply feel that QR should have been built into COVIDSafe as well as use GAEN. That way at least the collected data would have been protected by strong federal legislation vs the early days where businesses were asking people to "checkin" to their marketing platforms and the data was used to harvest email addresses.
- account15151315 5y agoGAEN would not have provided contact tracers with information about contacts.
- ghuntley 5y agoIncorrect.
- reitzensteinm 5y agoCare to explain how?