1 May: CBS Iowa: Contact tracing ‘army’ being put together in NY by Bloomberg, Johns Hopkins
by Jana Barnello & WHAM Staff
Bloomberg Philanthropies is teaming up with Johns Hopkins University and other groups to find and recruit potential tracers and train them to trace COVID-19 cases. CUNY and SUNY schools are also providing assistance to find applicants...
Mayor Bloomberg joined Governor Cuomo’s daily briefing Thursday...
In all, Cuomo said New York may need between 6,400 to 17,000 tracers, depending on projections for the virus...
https://cbs2iowa.com/news/nation-world/watch-gov-cuomo-holds-daily-covid-19-briefing-from-albany-04-30-2020
read all of the following:
30 Apr: Bloomberg: The World Embraces Contact-Tracing Technology to Fight Covid-19
By Gerrit De Vynck; With assistance by Kartikay Mehrotra, Kari Soo Lindberg, Sohee Kim, Yoolim Lee, Lenka Ponikelska, Konrad Krasuski, Daniele Lepido, Nate Lanxon, and Natalia Drozdiak
Tech companies have jumped at the opportunity, with the highest-profile effort coming from Apple Inc. and Google. These tech giants aren’t alone, though. Here’s a round-up of initiatives from around the world:...
Singapore was among the first to roll out a contact-tracing app. TraceTogether launched on March 20, and more than a million of Singapore’s 5.7 million residents installed it by mid-April...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-30/the-world-embraces-contact-tracing-technology-to-fight-covid-19
only about 15% of usually-obedient Singaporeans have downloaded the app, & that doesn’t mean they all turn the app on. Australia has an updated version of the Singapore app, said they needed 40% to sign up (approx. 10 million) for it to be viable. conservative govt in power, but app approved by the major political parties. will release the code after people download the app:
2 May: ABC: Coronavirus app tracing capability not operational, despite 4 million downloads
By political reporter Stephanie Borys
Yesterday the PM urged all Australians to download COVIDSafe, saying the sooner they did so, the sooner they would be able to go to the pub.
“It’s like putting on sunscreen when you go out into the blazing sun. You can’t go out in the blazing sun unless you’ve got that protection in place,” he said.
National Cabinet has agreed to consider relaxing social distancing restrictions when it meets next Friday, but this will only occur if more Australians download COVIDSafe…
The Federal Government had previously said that 40 per cent of the population would have to sign up to the app for it to be effective, but now officials will not put a figure on it...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-02/coronavirus-app-currently-not-fully-operational/12208924
desperate stuff &, for a laugh, so far it doesn’t appear to work with iPhones.
follow-up to comment #44 re Australia:
Australia: pop 25 million. 93 covid deaths, majority from cruise ships, returning residents & aged care facilities.
as of today, there are just 28 cases in ICU (Australia has 2,000-plus ICU beds).
30 Apr: 7 News: Coronavirus Australia: No patients left in ICU in South Australia as state records eight days (now ten days) without new cases
Spurrier says while South Australia’s cases remain lower than its eastern counterparts, no early lifting of social distancing restrictions would be taking place...
ENDING AUSTRALIA’S AGGRESSIVE LOCKDOWN IS NOT EASY. BETTER STEP UP NOW AMERICA, OR YOU MIGHT END UP IN THE SAME ABSURD SITUATION AS THE AUSSIES.
That NYS contract tracing boondoggle is the same thing #HeilHalfWit tried to pull off in MI until she was caught.
This is the same gov that made nursing homes take back WuFlu patients from hospitals and whose health department was allowing asymptomatic postive nursing home workers to come into work.