NHS COVID app prevented `thousands` of deaths, says report
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`On average, each confirmed case who consented to notification of their contacts through the app prevented one new case` What you need to know New research has backed claims the NHS COVID app prevented thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of cases. Peer-reviewed research says each submission to the app on average prevented one further case. Statistics show the app may have prevented between 4,200 and 8,700 deaths. New peer-reviewed research has backed claims the NHS COVID app did indeed prevent thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of infections. From BBC News: The NHS contact-tracing app had a significant impact on lowering the spread of the coronavirus in the UK, a peer-reviewed paper has found. Researchers estimate the app prevented hundreds of thousands of cases of the disease, and thousands of deaths. `On average, each confirmed case who consented to notification of their contacts through the app prevented one new case,` the paper claims. ...