{"id":827,"date":"2020-09-10T09:19:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T16:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=827"},"modified":"2020-09-11T09:22:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T16:22:14","slug":"early-evidence-of-effectiveness-of-digital-contact-tracing-for-sars-cov-2-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/10\/early-evidence-of-effectiveness-of-digital-contact-tracing-for-sars-cov-2-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Evidence of Effectiveness of Digital Contact Tracing for SARS-CoV-2 in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022\u00a0[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Preliminary data from SwissCovid, the first Exposure Notification-based contact tracing app launched on June 25, shows that voluntary digital contact tracing has asimilar effectiveness for identifying infected partners of COVID-19 index cases as classic contacttracing, provided that both the index case and the exposed contacts use the app. The authorsconclude that the app can be used as a complementary tool for controlling the spread of SARS-CoV-2 within and across country borders.<\/p>\n<p><em>Salath et al. (Sept 9, 2020). Early Evidence of Effectiveness of Digital Contact Tracing for SARS-CoV-2 in Switzerland. Pre-print downloaded Sep 10 from <a href=\"http:\/\/discover.uw.edu\/P03080yAxQ00g10z0ZjOqA0\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.07.20189274<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022\u00a0[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Preliminary data from SwissCovid, the first Exposure Notification-based contact tracing app launched on June 25, shows that voluntary digital contact tracing has asimilar effectiveness for identifying infected partners of COVID-19 index cases as classic contacttracing, provided that both the index case and the exposed contacts use the app. The authorsconclude that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/10\/early-evidence-of-effectiveness-of-digital-contact-tracing-for-sars-cov-2-in-switzerland\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37,64],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-non-pharm-interventions","tag-switzerland","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}