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“Immuni” and the National Health System: Lessons Learnt from the COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing in Italy

Since the early stage of the current pandemic, digital contact tracing (DCT) through mobile phone apps, called “Immuni”, has been introduced to complement manual contact tracing in Italy. Until 31 December 2021, Immuni identified 44,880 COVID-19 cases, which corresponds to less than 1% of total COVI...

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Autores principales: Ussai, Silvia, Pistis, Marco, Missoni, Eduardo, Formenti, Beatrice, Armocida, Benedetta, Pedrazzi, Tatiana, Castelli, Francesco, Monasta, Lorenzo, Lauria, Baldassare, Mariani, Ilaria
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9223529/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35742778
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127529
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author Ussai, Silvia
Pistis, Marco
Missoni, Eduardo
Formenti, Beatrice
Armocida, Benedetta
Pedrazzi, Tatiana
Castelli, Francesco
Monasta, Lorenzo
Lauria, Baldassare
Mariani, Ilaria
author_facet Ussai, Silvia
Pistis, Marco
Missoni, Eduardo
Formenti, Beatrice
Armocida, Benedetta
Pedrazzi, Tatiana
Castelli, Francesco
Monasta, Lorenzo
Lauria, Baldassare
Mariani, Ilaria
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description Since the early stage of the current pandemic, digital contact tracing (DCT) through mobile phone apps, called “Immuni”, has been introduced to complement manual contact tracing in Italy. Until 31 December 2021, Immuni identified 44,880 COVID-19 cases, which corresponds to less than 1% of total COVID-19 cases reported in Italy in the same period (5,886,411). Overall, Immuni generated 143,956 notifications. Although the initial download of the Immuni app represented an early interest in the new tool, Immuni has had little adoption across the Italian population, and the recent increase in its download is likely to be related to the mandatory Green Pass certification for conducting most daily activities that can be obtained via the application. Therefore, Immuni failed as a support tool for the contact tracing system. Other European experiences seem to show similar limitations in the use of DTC, leaving open questions about its effectiveness, although in theory, contact tracing could allow useful means of “proximity tracking”.
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spelling pubmed-92235292022-06-24 “Immuni” and the National Health System: Lessons Learnt from the COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing in Italy Ussai, Silvia Pistis, Marco Missoni, Eduardo Formenti, Beatrice Armocida, Benedetta Pedrazzi, Tatiana Castelli, Francesco Monasta, Lorenzo Lauria, Baldassare Mariani, Ilaria Int J Environ Res Public Health Opinion Since the early stage of the current pandemic, digital contact tracing (DCT) through mobile phone apps, called “Immuni”, has been introduced to complement manual contact tracing in Italy. Until 31 December 2021, Immuni identified 44,880 COVID-19 cases, which corresponds to less than 1% of total COVID-19 cases reported in Italy in the same period (5,886,411). Overall, Immuni generated 143,956 notifications. Although the initial download of the Immuni app represented an early interest in the new tool, Immuni has had little adoption across the Italian population, and the recent increase in its download is likely to be related to the mandatory Green Pass certification for conducting most daily activities that can be obtained via the application. Therefore, Immuni failed as a support tool for the contact tracing system. Other European experiences seem to show similar limitations in the use of DTC, leaving open questions about its effectiveness, although in theory, contact tracing could allow useful means of “proximity tracking”. MDPI 2022-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9223529/ /pubmed/35742778 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127529 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Ussai, Silvia
Pistis, Marco
Missoni, Eduardo
Formenti, Beatrice
Armocida, Benedetta
Pedrazzi, Tatiana
Castelli, Francesco
Monasta, Lorenzo
Lauria, Baldassare
Mariani, Ilaria
“Immuni” and the National Health System: Lessons Learnt from the COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing in Italy
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title_full_unstemmed “Immuni” and the National Health System: Lessons Learnt from the COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing in Italy
title_short “Immuni” and the National Health System: Lessons Learnt from the COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing in Italy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9223529/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35742778
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127529
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