This Is The Sort Of Nonsense That Is Really Harming Trust In Digital Health And Government Overall.

 This fabulous yarn appeared last week. Secret report slams COVIDSafe as ‘high cost, low benefit’ Denham Sadler National Affairs Editor 30 August 2021 The federal government was warned early this year that its $16 million COVIDSafe contact tracing app was ineffective in “very high-risk settings” and was wasting the time of state health authorities in a rep ort it attempted to keep secret. Health Minister Greg Hunt tabled a report on the effectiveness of COVIDSafe, which uses a smartphone’s bluetooth technology to log close contacts between users and sends this information to a national database if a user tests positive for COVID-19, last month, well after he was required to under legislation. But the report tabled by the government differs greatly from the full report provided by independent consultancy Abt Associates, which has now been revealed following a freedom of information battle by The Canberra Times. The government had earlier releas ed a version of the full report... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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