New contact tracing apps stir hope for virus fighters in US states

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A new wave of mobile apps that help track exposure to the coronavirus is coming to US states ahead of the holidays as public health officials bet ...

Timotheus Hoettges, Chief Executive Officer of Germany's telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG, holds a mobile phone as he attends the presentation of the new contact-tracing smartphone app in Berlin, Germany, Jun 16, 2020.

"This is one of the many tools in the toolbox, and we need to use them all," said Sarah Tuneberg, Colorado's senior advisor for coronavirus containment.University of California campuses are piloting a prospective statewide system based on the new Express technology, starting at San Diego, where it has been used to notify contacts in more than 20 positive cases. Over 18,000 UC San Diego staff and students, more than 50 per cent of the on-campus population, are using the system.

The United States has lagged, with about 6 million people having tried exposure notification apps since the first one debuted in August, according to data from the 18 states and two territories that made apps available. By Christmas, nearly 50 per cent of the US population will have access to an exposure notification app, doubling coverage from early October, according to Reuters’ review.

 

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