Peer review backs claim that NHS contact tracing app saved thousands of lives

Peer review backs claim that NHS contact tracing app saved thousands of lives

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British researchers suggested back in February that the NHS contact tracing app saved thousands of lives in England and Wales. Some were skeptical, noting that the claim was based on extrapolation rather than hard evidence, but peer review has now backed the claim.

As we noted last time, the privacy protections built into the coronavirus contact tracing API by Apple and Google made it challenging to measure the impact of the app …

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