New ask Hacker News story: Failure to launch US phone Covid-tracking apps?

Failure to launch US phone Covid-tracking apps?
3 by nick_kline | 0 comments on Hacker News.
What's going on with phone based covid-tracking apps? Apple & Google have widely released bluetooth based tracking capabilities that need an app to leverage them, and in the US these seem to be state based. The US has a disgraceful national failure to have a countrywide plan for most cv19 issues. The Google & Apple strategy we have seems to be that each state makes their own app leveraging the infrastructure. My state (Washington) doesn't have an app as of now. Only a few states have released them. Washington State people have been working on an app for a while; commoncircle.us seems to be their website, they have a github site that hasn't had a checkin for a couple of months. Is this effort dead? Their twitter account has nothing since July. Why isn't there an app available or any discussion? Overview article of the US situation: https://ift.tt/339HpsF Salon.com https://ift.tt/2UGWzky UW engineering presentation about the effort by prof. Stefano Tessaro (Oct 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geAIEwBOSRY&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=UWVideo

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