MedCity News May 14, 2020
Apple and Google are rolling out a framework for local governments to develop contact tracing apps. But epidemiologists say apps alone won’t be enough.
“In the middle of this pandemic, we are building our wings after we have all jumped off the cliff,” said Dr. Karen DeSalvo, a former health IT official and Google’s new chief health officer said at at the World Medical Innovation Forum, a virtual event hosted by Panders Healthcare on Monday.
She was describing the company’s latest effort to build a contact tracing framework with competitor Apple. Two months into the Covid-19 pandemic, many parts of the U.S. response are still a work in progress. As with testing and stay-at-home orders, states are putting together fragmented...
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