New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut's contact tracing program could help reduce additional coronavirus outbreaks in the hard-hit tri-state area
of US consumers currently owning a smartphone, Apple and Google's alliance has the potential to reach a massive portion of the US population.
Further, Apple and Google's tool could expedite the process of gathering and exchanging coronavirus patient and exposure information, and could play an important role in determining the success of NY's contact tracing initiative, should the state government For example, traditional contact tracing methods can take three days for every new case, STAT, and during this days-long window, infected individuals could still be spreading the novel coronavirus.
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