美国的接触式追踪应用

尽管已经证明了智能手机接触跟踪应用程序在减少COVID-19病例和死亡方面的有效性，但美国人似乎对使用该程序兴趣不大。 美联社周一发布的一份分析报告显示，只有18个州向其公民和这些地区提供这些应用，只有大约十分之一的人使用了该技术，该技术用于识别与某个人接触过的人感染了COVID-19。 美联社指出，在六个月前使用基于谷歌和苹果公司推出的技术的应用程序的地区收养率更高，但即使在那些最成功的州-康涅狄格州，也只有大约20％的居民选择激活软件。 美联社补充说，在大多数情况下，欧洲的联系人跟踪应用程序表现更好。例如，在爱尔兰，超过25％的人口使用NearForm制作的COVID-19应用程序，该应用程序还使用了纽约，新泽西，宾夕法尼亚州和特拉华州的应用程序。 德国和英国的普及率与爱尔兰相似，而芬兰的普及率则为45％。另一方面，法国只有4％的人口使用追踪应用程序。

原文标题：Contact-Tracing Apps Flop in the US

原文：Despite the proven effectiveness of smartphone contact-tracing applications in reducing COVID-19 cases and deaths, Americans seem to have little interest in using the programs.

An analysis by the Associated Press released Monday found that only 18 states make those apps available to their citizens and in those locales, only about one in 14 people have utilized the technology, which is used to identify people who have come into contact with a person infected with COVID-19.

Adoption rates in areas using an app based on technology introduced by Google and Apple six months ago are higher, the AP noted, but even in the most successful of those states -- Connecticut -- only about 20 percent of residents have chosen to activate the software.

The AP added that contact-tracing apps in Europe have fared better, for the most part. In Ireland, for example, more than 25 percent of the population uses a COVID-19 app made by NearForm, which also makes the app used by New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Germany and Great Britain have rates similar to Ireland's, while Finland has a 45 percent penetration rate. On the other hand, only four percent of France's population uses a tracing app.