{"id":10223,"date":"2021-06-07T10:46:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T17:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10223"},"modified":"2021-06-08T10:47:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:47:53","slug":"early-epidemiological-evidence-of-public-health-value-of-wa-notify-a-smartphone-based-exposure-notification-tool-modeling-covid-19-cases-averted-in-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/07\/early-epidemiological-evidence-of-public-health-value-of-wa-notify-a-smartphone-based-exposure-notification-tool-modeling-covid-19-cases-averted-in-washington-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Epidemiological Evidence of Public Health Value of WA Notify a Smartphone-Based Exposure Notification Tool Modeling COVID-19 Cases Averted in Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A study of the impact of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington State&#8217;s exposure notification tool, WA Notify, in mitigating the spread of COVID-19 during <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> first four months of implementation found that based on an estimated COVID-19 case fatality of 1.4%, WA Notify saved 30-120 lives <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">over this <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">period. A model <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">run on a range of secondary attack rates (5.1-13.7%) and quarantine effectiveness (53<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">64%)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ssuming a 12% secondary attack rate and 53% quarantine effectiveness, 6,240 cases were expected to be<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">averted statewide during the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">four-month <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">period.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Segal et al.\u00a0(June 7, 2021). Early Epidemiological Evidence of Public Health Value of WA Notify a Smartphone-Based Exposure Notification Tool Modeling COVID-19 Cases Averted in Washington State. Pre-print downloaded Jun 7 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.06.04.21257951\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.06.04.21257951<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A study of the impact of Washington State&#8217;s exposure notification tool, WA Notify, in mitigating the spread of COVID-19 during the first four months of implementation found that based on an estimated COVID-19 case fatality of 1.4%, WA Notify saved 30-120 lives over this period. A model was run on a range&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/07\/early-epidemiological-evidence-of-public-health-value-of-wa-notify-a-smartphone-based-exposure-notification-tool-modeling-covid-19-cases-averted-in-washington-state\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[39,37,59,68],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-10223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-modeling","tag-non-pharm-interventions","tag-wa","tag-washington","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10224,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10223\/revisions\/10224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10223"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}