{"id":8915,"date":"2020-08-10T11:58:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T18:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8915"},"modified":"2021-04-12T11:59:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T18:59:18","slug":"acceptability-of-app-based-contact-tracing-for-covid-19-cross-country-survey-evidence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/10\/acceptability-of-app-based-contact-tracing-for-covid-19-cross-country-survey-evidence-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Acceptability of App-Based Contact Tracing for COVID-19: Cross-Country Survey Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Altmann et al. measured support for digital contact tracing of COVID-19 infections using anonymous online surveys of 5,995 people in France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the US.\u00a0In spite of\u00a0concerns about cyber-security and privacy and a lack of trust in governments, they found strong support\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(&gt;68%)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for installing and using a digital contact tracing app that would automatically notify users if they have been in close contact for at least 15 minutes with an infected person.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"7\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">There was<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0little correlation between regional-level COVID-19 mortality and support for the app.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"7\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">American<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and German respondents<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0reported stronger privacy an<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">d security concerns<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0compared to other countries<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, but\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a large majority\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">still said that they would probably or\u00a0definitely install\u00a0or keep the app on their phones.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Altmann et al. (May 4, 2020). Acceptability of App-Based Contact Tracing for COVID-19: Cross-Country Survey Evidence (Preprint). JMIR MHealth and\u00a0UHealth.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2196\/19857\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2196\/19857<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Altmann et al. measured support for digital contact tracing of COVID-19 infections using anonymous online surveys of 5,995 people in France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the US.\u00a0In spite of\u00a0concerns about cyber-security and privacy and a lack of trust in governments, they found strong support\u00a0(&gt;68%)\u00a0for installing and using a digital contact tracing app that would&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/10\/acceptability-of-app-based-contact-tracing-for-covid-19-cross-country-survey-evidence-2\/\">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":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-8915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915","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=8915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8916,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915\/revisions\/8916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8915"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}