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Talking COVID-19 tracing apps (again) on ABC Adelaide

Computer generated representation of COVID-19 virions (SARS-CoV-2) under electron microscope. (Felipe Esquivel Reed / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison continues to encourage Australians to use the government’s forthcoming COVID-19 contact tracing app. While he and the relevant ministers are doing their best to reassure us that our privacy will be preserved, it seems there’s still a lot of mistrust out there.

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Talking COVID-19 tracing apps on ABC Brisbane and the Gold Coast

Part of a diagram by epidemiologist @MarcelSalathe & designer @NCasenmare explaining how contact tracing works to slow the spread of an infection. Image is in in the public domain (CC0 1.0).
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison is ramping up the pressure for Australians to use a COVID-19 contact tracing that that hasn’t even been written yet — and more importantly hasn’t even been shown to be something that’d be useful in the first place.

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