There is a clash over the future of the NHS tracing app, as many delete it - or ignore its alerts.
Since nobody knows who has been pinged due to the privacy built into the system, that has always been the case. But making it clearer could send the message to many that they can simply ignore any alerts.
But the epidemiologists who advise him appear confident that the app is working - and perhaps better than ever before.They point to a peer-reviewed paper in the journal Nature which showed that last autumn the app averted as many as 600,000 cases and could have saved up to 8,000 lives. The aim of contact tracing is to take people who might be infected with the virus after a close contact "out of circulation" before they can pass it on to others. Note the word "might" - the majority of those sent into isolation won't turn out to be infected.But if even a few are, then their isolation can help in the battle to stop the spread of the virus.
We know that the technology behind the app is far from perfect, but it appears to be about as reliable as asking people to remember their close contacts from the previous week.The other misunderstanding is a tendency to blame the app for issues that are about wider health policy.
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