Virginia launches the first U.S. app using Apple-Google coronavirus notification technology

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Virginia’s coronavirus notification app, Covidwise, launched today. Here's how it works.

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One of the most successful exposure notification apps using the Apple-Google system is in Germany. The app, called Corona-Warn-App, was downloaded over 16 million times at the end of July out of a population of 82 million,. In France, which used a different Bluetooth system not backed by the tech giants, only 14 people were notified using the app over its first three weeks.

"Effective is going to be anyone's guess as how you want to describe that. But they also state in the [Oxford] study that they estimate that for every one to two app users, you will potentially reduce the infection by one," Stover said.

 

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Can folks not living in Virginia use it ? We need this at National level, not State by State.

Requires iOS 13.5 or later.

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Everyone needs to buy a faraday case. Go out travel a mile or 2. Take it out and fuk with the tracking

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