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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Cellphone Coronavirus Notification at UC-San Diego

From the San Diego Union-Tribune: Students and staff members at the University of California San Diego will soon be able to get cellphone notifications telling them whether they’ve come in contact with someone who has COVID-19.

Health officials at the university have worked for months to persuade the state to sign off on a pilot program that harnesses a cellphone’s Bluetooth capabilities to quickly identify people who have come in contact with the novel coronavirus. On Friday, the state gave UC San Diego and University of California San Francisco the go-ahead to test the technology...

UC San Diego officials are still working out the details of the program, but the hope is to have it ready to go by the time school starts on Sept. 28. The University estimates that it will enroll 38,000 students for the fall quarter, and while most students will be taking their classes online, about 11,000 graduate and undergraduate students are planning to live on campus...

Full story at https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/story/2020-09-14/uc-san-diego-given-green-light-to-launch-cellphone-based-covid-19-exposure-notification-system

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