Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 20 of 2021.
I.
“Digital contact tracing is not a perfect intervention, given the risks to privacy, personal data, and false positive or false negative characterization of contact status. However, as in a Swiss cheese model, imperfect interventions can work together to curb epidemics.”
Read the NEJM perspective “Contact Tracing for Covid-19 — A Digital Inoculation against Future Pandemics” here.
II.
A great primer on Data Capitalism and algorithmic racism.
III.
“Science Had a Misinformation Problem Before COVID. Scientists Want to Fix It“.
Also, here is Vice article about the authors, Drs. Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom at the University of Washington; Science Had a Misinformation Problem Before COVID. Scientists Want to Fix It (vice.com)
Jina Dcruz 