MedCity News May 20, 2020
Public-health agencies should adopt the Apple/Google initiative on the condition of third-party supervision and the agencies should relax social distancing on the condition of sufficient adoption.
As the U.S. contemplates routes to economic recovery in response to Covid-19, it is hurtling toward a fork in the road. A sustainable approach to contact tracing is becoming the central issue in economic recovery. The U.S. still has two choices: a light-weight, human-centric approach or a heavy-weight, machine-centric approach. The clock is ticking; the sand is draining from the hourglass as we avoid both options in futile hope of some third possibility.
The light-weight, human-centric approach is the hermetically-sealed perfection of the proposed Apple/Google app-based solution for non-intrusive contact tracing in a distributed...