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Coronavirus apps were supposed to be the answer to COVID-19. They are not.As the UK rolls out its app, it time to get real about what we can really expect from these digital tools.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppS
stanley isolierkanne hare on LinkedInFree article usually reserved for subscribersThe COVID-19 track and trace app in Scotland | Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ImagesSeptember 24, 20206:30 am CETBy Mark ScottDigital Politics is a column about the global intersection of technology and the world of politics.Coronavirus cases are again on the rise. Governments are scratching their heads about what to do next. Many are relyi
stanley cup ng on digital apps to track the spread of the pandemic.They shouldn t get their hopes up.AdvertisementAdvertisementAs England and Wales on Thursday became the latest countries to roll out a coronavirus smartphone tool in the United Kingdom, Scotland and
stanley becher Northern Ireland had already done so , the track record of these apps across Europe and elsewhere is, at best, patchy and, at worst, a distraction to more analog attempts to corral a pandemic that has so far killed almost 1 million people worldwide.These tracking apps 鈥?backed, almost exclusively, by technology from Google and Apple 鈥?allow people to keep tabs on who they ve been in contact with and to be notified, virtually and anonymously, if any of those contacts has contracted COVID-19. In most countries, the data is stored only on people s phones to avoid governments generating a massive data Jafj Bistro to bust: Brussels restaurants fear (sanitized) new normal
Belgium hopes to cut drug prices with pharma dealThe deal will change drug pricing and testing rules.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInFree article usually reserved for subscribersBelgian health minister Maggie De BlockJuly 27, 20156:02 pm CETBy Peter ODonnellBelgium and groups representing branded and generic pharmaceutical companies signed a complex four-year deal on Monday aimed at approving drugs faster and drilling prices down.The dea
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stanley quencher g and testing rules 鈥?including for expensive new treatments for hepatitis C 鈥?amid a global debate on the price of new drugs.Belgian health minister Maggie De Block said it would make new drugs available to patients at least two months earlier, and save them up to 鈧?0 million a year in the charg
stanley mug es they have to pay for prescribed medicines.AdvertisementAdvertisementUnprecedented prices, with Gileads $1,000-per-pill Sovaldi for hepatitis C as the poster child, is fueling a pushback from payers, and a public debate. Its the second time this year that De Block has tried a novel way to tackle the access and cost challenges facing national health systems across Europe.She is also teaming up with her Dutch counterpart to jointly negotiate the prices of some medicines, something that has until now been conducted between drug firms and individual member countries.The deal with industry signed Monday envisages speeding access to new drugs by cutting down on the time taken in Belgian d