Pritzker:  Illinois Contract Tracing Collaborative

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/open-america/contact-tracing.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52441428
  UK NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan

https://www.dph.illinois.gov/covid19
https://dph.illinois.gov/covid19 https://redcap.dph.illinois.gov/surveys/?s=KWKJL93TM7
https://dph.illinois.gov/restore

https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200518/contact-tracing-for-covid-19-coming-to-lake-county-2294-more-cases
  launching a pilot project with Lake County and St. Clair County

collaboration
1) data collection
2) data display
3) app PrivateKit: SafePaths  Ramesh Raskar
https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/doit/media/Pages/DoITDigest.aspx

https://fox2now.com/news/watch-illinois-gov-j-b-pritzker-holds-coronavirus-briefing-2/  May 18, 2020
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/4/10/21216397/coronavirus-contact-tracing-app-mit-jb-pritzker-ramesh-raskar-privatekit-safepaths
  the technology can be intrusive
  diary is encrypted and lives only on your phone
  Christophe Fraser, Oxford Study
  it would take 300 people statewide
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crossroads/2020/4/4/21207348/technology-can-help-us-end-the-coronavirus-pandemic-ed-zotti

https://www.pih.org/ma-response
Massachusetts COVID-19 Community Tracing Collaborative (CTC)
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

https://news.wttw.com/2020/05/01/pritzker-hopes-contact-tracing-army-can-help-slow-spread-covid-19
https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/doit/media/Pages/DoITDigest.aspx

good example:
8:28 2020May20  bbc
Coronavirus deaths in Wales continue to decline
Number of deaths of individuals who tested positive for Covid-19 in Wales by date
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-51888681  Coronavirus cases in Wales:
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/171E/production/_112381950_deaths20may-nc.png
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ChicagoTribune 2020May19 s1p3 Collar counties speak TedSlowik
  Steve Streit, Lockport mayor
  Balderman, R
  Patrick Joyce, D-Essex, senator,40th, Cook,Grundy,Will
  <20% needed, 22% in CookCounty, 17% statewide
  consumers see no need to rush to resumption; won't matter if state relents

As long as the new case rate stays up, and hospitals are full, there is no
need to recind restrictions.  However, more the orders could be taylored to
smaller jurisdictions so that more articulated regulations might be able to 
permit more activity without undue harm.   


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Also today:

maderna cambridge
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/health/coronavirus-vaccine-moderna.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/18/857997341/new-coronavirus-vaccine-candidate-shows-promise-in-early-limited-trial
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52677203
https://www.modernatx.com/modernas-work-potential-vaccine-against-covid-19
  mRNA-1273  small snippet of the coronavirus's genetic code
  highest dose was linked to most side-effects
  Dr Tal Zaks:  elicits an immune response of the magnitude caused by natural infection
  vaccinated animals had less severe symptoms and did not get pneumonia
  Prof Eleanor Riley, University of Edinburgh:
   partial protection against disease in the vaccine recipient but would be unlikely to reduce transmission

US Health Secretary Alex Azar:  WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus