WASHINGTON (AFP) - Taiwan and South Korea have led the world in digital contact tracing for the Covid-19 pandemic - an example the US with its emphasis on personal privacy and decentralised system of government is unlikely to be able to follow.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - Taiwan and South Korea have led the world in digital contact tracing for the Covid-19 pandemic - an example the US with its emphasis on personal privacy and decentralised system of government is unlikely to be able to follow.
It's painstaking work that can complement the opt-in mobile phone based contact tracing, announced by Apple and Google recently. The investigators, who don't require medical training, work from home, using computer software, and each call takes at least half an hour. "If we can do it in a place like Liberia, how is it that we couldn't do it in Massachusetts?" added Mukherjee.
In Wuhan, 1,800 teams of five people carried out this work, often voluntarily. Scaling that up to the US outbreak would mean 265,000 people are needed. In an email to AFP, the CDC said it had deployed 24 teams to each state, with over 600 staff nationwide. "There's definitely going to be some risks" associated with lifting social distancing orders without having the right surveillance mechanisms in place, warned Fraser.
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