One thing we need, that the Less Wrong community could likely help with, is contact tracing capability at scale. I know of one such project in the US—https://www.covid-watch.org/ The Covid Watch project, based out of Stanford.
I think the major tech companies need to set up and throw a ton of engineering and design resources at contact tracing efforts. They currently control the software supply chain to most mobile devices on earth, and thus are ideally placed to help track the spread of infections.
The more testing we have, the more effective contact tracing will be, so this needs to be paired with an increase in testing world-wide, as previously mentioned in the thread.
Contact Tracing at Scale!
One thing we need, that the Less Wrong community could likely help with, is contact tracing capability at scale. I know of one such project in the US—https://www.covid-watch.org/ The Covid Watch project, based out of Stanford.
I think the major tech companies need to set up and throw a ton of engineering and design resources at contact tracing efforts. They currently control the software supply chain to most mobile devices on earth, and thus are ideally placed to help track the spread of infections.
The more testing we have, the more effective contact tracing will be, so this needs to be paired with an increase in testing world-wide, as previously mentioned in the thread.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fxfsc4SWKfpnDHY97/landfish-lab?commentId=4ftZGNxtNRiwgXTbf
My collection of links to the projects I know about in this space and some news coverage of them.
There might be benefits to having an privacy sensitive open-source solution like the one proposed in Covid-Watch over a Google/Facebook solution.