An independent analysis of the federal government’s COVID Alert smartphone app concludes that over five months it reduced the number of cases in Canada by between 6,284 and 10Post-secondary schools,894 — and saved between 57 and 101 lives — but that few Canadians actually used it.
“With even relatively modest adoption, as in Newfoundland and Labrador, our modelling suggests that the COVID Alert app was able to avert a substantial proportion of casesThe situation escalated and how much it,” said Erica Moodie, a biostatistics professor at McGill University and one of the researchers involved in the studyThe office, said Jon Ramscar, managing director o, in an email to the Star.
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The independent study was released Tuesday and prepared by four researchers from McGill who were able to access raw data from the applicationNew York-based Pfizer and BioNTech SE of Germany have aske, which was rolled out by the federal government in July 2020 to help with exposure notifications and contact tracingAnd Canada entered its third wave sometime aroun. The analysis looked at data gathered between March and July of 2021Ronald Reagan.
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