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title: Technologies to help fight COVID 19 including apps and tracking data collection
tags: [Team meetings, Thoughts]

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# Technologies to help fight COVID 19 including apps and tracking data collection
###### tags: `Thoughts` `Team meetings`

## Relevant materials 
- Tracking
-- [COVID-19 global dashboard | World Health Organization](https://covid19.who.int/)
-- [Apple and Android Corona tracking apps](https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/11/21216803/apple-google-coronavirus-tracking-app-covid-bluetooth-secure)
-- [Hong Kong tracking wristband](https://hongkongfp.com/2020/03/24/coronavirus-surveillance-tech-far-will-govts-go-will-return-freedoms-people/)
-- [Contact Tracing Norway's Coronavirus Cases | BBC Click](https://youtu.be/0cmN6tZmx0M)
- Data collection
-- [World of health data | World Health Organization](https://www.who.int/data/gho)
-- [PPDS - Privacy Preserving Data Store](https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/)
- Ultraviolet light
-- [Ultraviolet light | Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet)
-- [Can you kill coronavirus with UV light? | BBC FUTURE](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200327-can-you-kill-coronavirus-with-uv-light)
-- [Is UVC Safe? | Klaran University](https://www.klaran.com/is-uvc-safe)
-- [WHAT IS UVC LIGHT? | Klaran University](https://www.klaran.com/klaran-university/about-uvc)
-- [A new weapon in the fight against superbugs | David Brenner 2018](https://youtu.be/YATYsgi3e5A)
-- [Far-UVC light (207–222 nm) research article | 09 February 2018](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21058-w)
-- [Far UV-C wavelength 222nm example product | Ushio](https://www.ushio.com/product/care222-mercury-free-far-uv-c-excimer/)
- [Sweden Herd Immunity Strategy](https://www.npr.org/2020/04/26/845211085/stockholm-expected-to-reach-herd-immunity-in-may-swedish-ambassador-says)


## Key questions for tracking COVID 19
- What are the experience and learnings of other countries(Singapore and Norway) who have already done and deploy a corona tracking apps?
- What are the ethics and privacy issues?
- What kind of data driven decisions can this app drives?
- What are the limitation of the data collected by the app?


## Thoughts and new ideas for fighting COVID 19
- It is more a research project. We don't know how effective it is
- We need to be realistic about what this app is, the key message what this app can do. We need to communicate the limitations and uncertainty of the app. 
- The audience for using an app is confined to smartphone users and even then what's the compulsion to download and use it (other than altruism)?
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## The other side of COVID 19 and global changes
- add areas of focus...

## Project
- [Swiss tracking app](https://www.thelocal.ch/20200417/swiss-scientists-launch-a-new-app-to-collect-covid-19-data)