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Beware of Governments Bearing Contact Tracing Apps

Providing hospital personnel and the general public with enough tests, masks and hand soap is hard. In-person contact tracing is expensive and risky for the contact tracer, and existing numbers of trained contact tracing personnel are far below what’s needed. So it’s no wonder that governments across the world have suddenly warmed right up to […]

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COVID-19 Is A Catastrophe—The Response Could Be Another

By Alex Marthews and Derick Bellamy The last two months have terrified many in America and across the world. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has spread rapidly, racing well ahead of most countries’ efforts to test and suppress it. While older people are proportionately more likely to die if infected, the coronavirus can and has made […]