blog! “So, farewell then COVID-19 App”
Today is a day of mixed emotions for me. The UK's COVID tracing app is finally closing. The app was, by any reasonable measure, a success. A team of experts at the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford and Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick estimate the NHS COVID-19 app prevented […]
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@jbond@mastodon.social@Edent There was a moment there when England, Wales, Scotland, N Ireland, Republic of Ireland all had an app based on the Google-Apple Exposure Notification API. So did most of Europe and most of the states in the USA. At least some of them interoperated.
The wikipedia page needs an extra column for the deployments that have been closed and when. There's not many left.
Now what?
@penguin42 @jbond It's a mix of sovereignty of decision making, national security, and local needs.
It is surprisingly complicated to make a one-size-fits-all app.