Americans seem to have little interest in using contact-tracing applications used to identify people who have come into contact with a person infected with COVID-19. Adoption rates in areas using an app based on technology introduced by Google and Apple six months ago are higher, but even in the most successful of those states — Connecticut — only about 20 percent of residents have chosen to activate the software.
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Contact-Tracing Apps Flop in the US
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. December 8, 2020 09:12 AMAmericans seem to have little interest in using contact-tracing applications used to identify people who have come into contact with a person infected with COVID-19. Adoption rates in areas using an app based on technology introduced by Google and Apple six months ago are higher, but even in the most successful of those states — Connecticut — only about 20 percent of residents have chosen to activate the software.