Re: Privacy-protecting contact tracer for COVID-19?

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 10:20 AM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On 3/28/20 7:15 AM, Ouri Poupko wrote:
> > They do this iteratively for any overlapping sub-segments, until they
> > get an intersecting point (2m radius) between their true paths.
>
> This is a great conversation, demonstrating that a non-trivial number of
> people in the W3C CCG community have put a lot of thought into this topic.
>
> I'm curious if folks have figured out how to address one of the hardest
> aspects of this problem -- that SARS-CoV-2 can survive on plastic and
> metal surfaces for up to 2-3 days:
>
> https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973
>
> Is it just a matter of seeing if you've entered the same cell as someone
> that was infected in the past 3 days (possibly touching a surface that
> they touched)?
>

This reminds me of an article that I read a few weeks ago. Copper
apparently is anti-viral. It is also a good electrical conductor. :)
https://www.fastcompany.com/90476550/copper-kills-coronavirus-why-arent-our-surfaces-covered-in-it


>
> The compute necessary to do that calculation boggles the mind (but I
> expect might work just fine if off-loaded to a decentralized system).
>
> -- manu
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