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– a senior researcher at the University of Oxford in the pathogen dynamics groups – has stepped forward to deliver some home truths about the app.
Ignoring these, though, here are just a few of the questions the researcher and clinician has answered about the app.“It was hard. We tested it, made it better, tested it again, made it better, now it’s ready. And we helped Google develop their system. And we beat most states in America.”“Yes. The few people with iphones earlier than 6S should write Apple and complain. If you have a later version you should download the app, stop the epidemic, and save the old folks with outdated smartphones.
Not everyone was convinced, of course. Indeed, many commenters continued to insist that they will not be downloading the app at all., “even if only two people downloaded it and they came into close contact and one had tested positive, then it would work for the other.
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