“Anecdotally, what we believe is happening is people with extra exposure — like essential workers, nursing home employees, medical workers and students — tend to download the app,” Brookins said. “While the overall percentage is somewhat disappointing, it may be higher within the high-risk population.”
But the lower downloads in the state may also be reflective of the state’s wide-open spaces and farming culture, where “people are so tired of restrictions and have reached the point of saying, ‘To hell with it,’” Brookins said.
Assessing the effectiveness of COVID-19 tracking apps by looking at downloads may be misleading, said Joanna Masel, professor of evolutionary biology and ecology at the University of Arizona, and a consultant to the state’s COVIDWATCH app.
Unlike other states that launched their apps with promotions for statewide use, the University of Arizona, which has developed and pilot-tested the app, has rolled it out in “defined communities,” Masel said.
The goal is to get higher adoption rates in universities, then expand it to Native American reservations in the state, large employers and then the broader community, Masel said. “That creates a network effect” and avoids potential technical failures that may come with everyone downloading the app at once, she said.
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