Apple and Google launch a digital contact tracing system.
Apple and Google are not building contact tracing apps."Starting today, our Exposure Notifications technology is available to public health agencies on both iOS and Android," Apple and Google said in a statement.
"Today, this technology is in the hands of public health agencies across the world who will take the lead and we will continue to support their efforts."The Google logo is seen displayed on smartphone screen in this illustration photo.After an individual downloads and enables a contact tracing application on his phone, he would subsequently receive an alert if he is exposed to anyone who is diagnosed with or likely to have COVID-19.
The companies said that digital contact tracing is meant to argument traditional human-to-human tracing, not replace it. Digital contact tracing is faster than traditional tracing, requires fewer resources and since it doesn't rely on human memory, can make it easier to track exposure in crowded spaces, or contact with strangers.
On the other hand, for such applications to be effective, they require users to download and enable the applications on their phones, and it's not yet clear that Americans will be willing to do so en masse.would have to opt in. Lower adoption rates could still have a positive effect, the researchers noted.
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