Seems the RED-Cross COVID19 App in Austria will get its âlastâ privacy and other issues fixed and then OpenSourced.
As the race is on for COVID-19 therapy and vaccine, how does the winnerâs success coordinate with everyone elseâs efforts? Do they license the recipe, do they publish enough detail to accelerate other recipes? Apparently China was the first to release a nCoV2019 genome sequence? I heard former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, say it would not be good if China developed a vaccine before the US did. Other than adding to our dependence, why would that be negative?
I donât think we will see a winner takes all situation (but I am no expert). Given the number of Vaccines needed to achieve herd immunity I donât see how one manufacturer could produce sufficient quantities in a reasonable amount of time. Each vaccine will have some production bottlenecks and hopefully different vaccines have different bottlenecks.
What I do hope for is that research is shared amongst researchers working towards a vaccine or treatment. If China (or anyone else) develops a Vaccine I would hope they âopen sourceâ everything needed to allow others to produce it as well. But maybe I am too optimistic.
That is the best way. The research should be open sourced and the drug companies should be forced not to gouge the world population for the actual vaccine. .
What do you think @Leo, was covid at CES?
NASA Develops COVID-19 Prototype Ventilator in 37 Days
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-develops-covid-19-prototype-ventilator-in-37-days
If it was there, considering the global nature of CES, the virus would have spread overseas too.
âRegardless, CES is still pushing on. The Consumer Technology Association confirmed that next yearâs show is still scheduled as planned for January 2021.â
âWhether or not anyone attends after all of this remains to be seen.â
The show must go on because of all the $$$
The new Google/Apple lash-up promises to be opt-in and to be disabled after needed⌠except I am sure many dictatorships, and the US (which is pretty close to one right now) will no doubt mandate it hang on once itâs shown to work to track citizens⌠âthink of the children.â
From the CNET article, " The technology basically works by helping Apple iPhones or devices powered by Googleâs Android software communicate with one another. They do this by sending signals to one another over Bluetooth radio that are stored on the phones. If someone is then confirmed as having the coronavirus, their phones send out a new signal alerting all the phones theyâd come in contact with over the preceding 14 days."
The odds of all the required actions to take place seem slim to none. Just the 30 ft. BT radio signal limitation would be an issue.
These Bluetooth solutions are just using Bluetooth LE to detect other people close enough to you to have possibly transmitted the virus. The two phones exchange codes (that are regularly changed). So the range of LE should be plenty.
When somebody gets a positive test, thatâs when the central DB is utilised to cross-check all the codes stored in your phone with the code of the positive person, and notify anybody whoâs been in range of the positive person to isolate until tested negative.
The theory is no GPS tracking needed, the codes exchanged are not linked to you personally, and are rolled off the system regularly so it is supposed to address privacy concerns as much as poss.
The app here in the UK is currently being tested. Some people have said it uses the Apple/Google API - but not sure.
Australian app just launched - CovidSafe. Have installed it; asks for a name, which doesnât have to be real name, age range, post code, and phone number. Only state health authorities can access data and then only if you send it. Donât know if it uses Google or Apple APIs.
Yeah I noticed Russell Ivanovic talking about it.
It doesnât use the APIs, which causes issues. Think the problem is having an app running continuously that relies on Bluetooth LE wonât work reliably as the OS power management turns it off. Unless you run the app continuously in the foreground on a phone that you never lock.
Guess this is one of the reasons Apple/Google stepped in to make it part of the OS so the Bluetooth bit works. But donât think thatâs been launched yet, sometime next month they say.
I believe this one is based on one used in Singapore. So little data being requested, I installed it. I have several government apps already (local council app, digital driverâs licence, tax officeâŚ) so what the hell 
Exposure Notification (contact tracing)
According to the CNET report referenced above:
- requires phone with Bluetooth
- requires Bluetooth to be enabled
- requires unobscured close proximity Bluetooth signal for up to 10-minutes
- requires user to download, install, and opt-in
- requires someone with symptoms get tested. Asymptomatic with COVID-19 not likely be tested.
- requires positive tested victim to report being sick
- requires positive tested victimâs approval to allow notification of positive test
- requires doctorâs confirmation of positive test
- requires 50% of population opt-in to be affective
Molekule Air Pro RX
FDA granted 510(k) Class II Medical Device Clearance for Air Pro RX, an air purifier intended for medical purposes to destroy bacteria & viruses in the air.
PECO technology destroyed 99.9994% of RNA virus MS2 on the filter in 24 hours, which is a proxy for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Wonder what this bad-boy costs?
I completely missed the âleave the app runningâ instruction on app. It will be very hard to change a +10 year habit of cleaning up all apps on a regular basis.
On the iOS side, it almost feels like a placebo until Appleâs API is released.