The scramble for contact tracing apps is on despite privacy concerns and the lack of evidence they could be effective without mass testing and most of the population downloading them (when a single digit percentage seems likely to do so). nytimes.com/2020/04/29/bus…
There simply aren’t enough Americans willing to install a contact tracing app to make them effective per recent surveys. Nevermind it would take four years at current capacity to test the population. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Apple/Google contact tracing toolkit has been released to developers (presumably local authorities). But is it explainable to people how this model protects their privacy to overcome the trust issues that inhibit adoption rates and cause selection bias? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
