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House Commerce GOP Presses GAO for Contact-Tracing Study

The GAO should do a tech assessment of COVID-19 contact tracing apps, wrote House Commerce Committee ranking member Greg Walden, R-Ore., and committee Republicans Friday. “Challenges that may reduce the effectiveness of these technologies include low adoption rates, testing delays,…

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privacy concerns, and interoperability of the apps,” wrote Walden, Health Subcommittee ranking member Michael Burgess, R-Texas, and Investigations Subcommittee ranking member Brett Guthrie, R-Ky. “We are also interested in the relationship between testing and state contact tracing programs.” They requested information about successful efforts by foreign countries. The agency didn’t comment.