Coronavirus tracking tech may be the best chance to stop the spread of the virus - but experts are worried solutions by Apple and Google won't be enough
Without widespread testing, there's only so much good contact tracing technology can do.
Testing in much of the US and the UK still lags behind other nations, with most coronavirus tests going to people who can afford high prices or those already in critical condition.
Sham Kakade, a computer scientist at the University of Washington and a coauthor of PACT contact tracing protocols, told WIRED that contact tracing only works "if you test far more cases than come up positive."
Rather than focusing on a contact tracing app, Anderson recommends pouring resources into hiring human workers to serve as paid contact tracers who monitor the spread of the virus — a measure that's showing early signs of success in Taiwan and Germany.
"Insofar as governments think that by getting some fancy piece of technology, they can solve the problem and make me the bad thing go away — they're just fooling themselves," he said.
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