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by tgragnato 1893 days ago
Which is not "nobody", but it is not even close to the statistical threshold of "enough use, helps prevent the spread of the disease"
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Globally yes, but the thing about contact tracing is that it is inherently local. So getting 1/6:th (if we assume most of those downloads are in Italy) of a single country would probably be helpful in preventing spread.
It means 1/36 interactions will be recorded by the app, which is almost certainly not enough to move the needle.