In Japan the relevant ministry has published a simple phone app developed by volunteers that assigns you a random number and makes a record when it meets somebody else's bluetooth phone. That wa… (View Post)

Any chance you could go easy on the retweeting? Each of those was like a full screen of scrolling... (View Post)

On the "cheap, scalable testing" thing, thread on a (pre-review) paper by boffins at Columbia University, they reckon they've got a reliable test that can produce fairly accurate resul… (View Post)

Another crazy simple rona test, this time from MIT http://news.mit.edu/2020/sherlock-based-one-step-test-provides-rapid-sensitive-covid-19-detection-0505 (View Post)

OT Japan has its coronavirus tracking app out, on the minimal-data-collection Google/Apple model. I was wondering how a Japanese ministry managed to pull off something that you could just download an… (View Post)