Without mass-testing, contact-tracing apps may have limited effectiveness, experts warn
Widespread downloading of such apps, they hope, will help to track the virus' spread and ease the lifting of lockdowns.among Europe's privacy regulators, little attention has centered on the effectiveness of apps in stopping the pandemic.released this week, the London-based Ada Lovelace Institute warned about what it described as a lack of evidence that apps help to curb the spread of the virus, urging the government to shelve plans for a U.K. contact tracing app.
When they used the model to test the effectiveness of contact-tracing apps, the results suggested that they are far less effective than often claimed. When they used the model to test the effectiveness of contact-tracing apps, the results suggested that they are far less effective than often claimed.
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