TUCSON (KVOA) - Case numbers are still very high and the executive director of the Arizona Public Health Association said Arizona could reach its peak of omicron in the next
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Since the University of Arizona launched Covid Watch Arizona – an anonymous COVID-19 exposure notification app – in August, the app has had relatively high download and usage rates, and university analysts estimate that it may have helped reduce the average number of people infected on campus by 12%. Joanna Masel That estimated 12% reduction in transmission matters. If you can get R(t) (the average number of people infected by a positive
person) to drop from 1.06 to .94, that translates from exponential growth to exponential decline, said
Joanna Masel, a professor of in the UArizona Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a member of the university s BIO5 Institute. Masel led the development of the app s risk scoring component, as a member of the UArizona Covid Watch implementation team and a consultant for WeHealth, the company that distributes the app.
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