The German COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing App: A Socioeconomic Evaluation.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic posed challenges to governments in terms of contact tracing. Like many other countries, Germany introduced a mobile-phone-based digital contact tracing solution ("Corona Warn App"; CWA) in June 2020. At the time of its release, however, it was hard to assess how effective such a solution would be, and a political and societal debate arose regarding its efficiency, also in light of its high costs. This study aimed to analyze the effectiveness of the CWA, considering prevented infections, hospitalizations, intensive care treatments, and deaths. In addition, its efficiency was to be assessed from a monetary point of view, and factors with a significant influence on the effectiveness and efficiency of the CWA were to be determined. Mathematical and statistical modeling wa

SUBMITTER: Ellmann S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9654962 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature