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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by feanaro on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:14PM (#25039997)
Luckily, contact tracing can be done efficiently the traditional way, by gathering the contacts of an infected person that tested positive and contacting them manually.
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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by mancerayder on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:13PM (#25040574)
But in a world of telephone scams and texts, how do you trust who's calling you and why?
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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by throwaway2245 on Monday November 09, 2020 @06:44PM (#25041343)
The emergency alert system (which plays its own alarm tone) seems pretty trustworthy.
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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by mancerayder on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:37PM (#25042840)
Maybe, but it doesn't sound targeted? I have no idea how it works in that back end, but I've never heard of emergency numbers being specific to individual phone numbers.
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