What Are Exposure Notifications, And How Are They Different From Contact Tracing
Today, Apple and Google announced that they’re pushing out their exposure notification technology — whichthat alert people if they’ve been near someone who later tested positive for COVID-19.
This is a confusing, but very important distinction. Exposure notifications and digital contact tracing are two different things, and choosing one or the other could change the course of the pandemic. Meanwhile, State B opts for an exposure notification app. If there’s an outbreak at a meat processing facility in State B, and workers turn to the app for help, they would get a notification that someone they had crossed paths with had tested positive for COVID-19 —. And, crucially, epidemiologists wouldn’t know where either. It would be up to manual contact tracers, interviewing those workers later, to figure out there was an outbreak at the facility in .
A contact tracing app would work like this: let’s say go to the grocery store, which puts you in close proximity to strangers. If you later test positive for COVID-19, you could anonymously tell those strangers that they were near someone while they were infectious. Or, inversely, a stranger that tests positive could anonymously share this information with you.
“The [location] data can be useful for disease surveillance more broadly, in a de-identified way,” Watson said. “But they also need more granular data. Maybe it doesn’t need to be held by public health forever, maybe just until a person is out of quarantine should be sufficient, but then it should be aggregated in a more durable way, so they can track it over the long-term.”Utah paid $2.
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