[CWA vs. Luca]: Promotion of the CWAs "Check-in" functionality ...

[Jo-Achim]

Hello, everyone,

We have many entries here that ask whether the CWA can scan Luca codes, under what conditions, etc. - with links to the corresponding FAQs. For example here: https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/issues/719#issuecomment-964021259.

Due to the 'new political will' (https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-wishlist/issues/352#issuecomment-973107941) to rely more on the CWA (because some problems with Luca were recognized / contracts expire / etc.), from my point of view it would be desirable to use the check-in functionality and the creation of corresponding QR codes in particular to actively promote for gastronomy / event organizers etc.; be it in the CWA on the smartphone or via Create QR code for event check-in. And, although generating the (own) check-in QR codes seems easy to me, maybe putting a small video (if it doesn't already exist) online or something similar.

I could imagine that many are not even familiar with the CWA's "Check-In" functionality. And that for many there is an inner hurdle, now, according to Luca, to create a new QR code 'again', to have to worry again, to have to 'familiarize' again, to research ... and as a result, not knowing whether that will work.

I would like to see my proposal not only limited to 'organizers' (events, gastronomy, ...), but also to be extended to doctors, practices, health-related / health-near services, etc. (see below).

Expected Benefits

To initiate and facilitate the change from Luca to CWA's "Check-In", which is also desirable for many reasons (security, privacy, (contract-) costs, etc.).

Summarized benefit with the CWA: Everyone who goes to a practice, to their doctor or who uses 'body-near services' should be able to log in at the practice entrance using the CWA Check-In. In order to also record infections in these areas / places via CWA 'people in one place at the same time'. For their own health and well-being, but also for those working on site! And last but not least, contain the corona pandemic! And the best thing about it: CWA-Check-Ins also work offline.

With that in mind, please more publicly viewable advertisements or whatever with that purpose. Joachim.

[Jo-Achim]

I would like to extend my above post regarding "Marketing for the CWA" and its check-in functionality to other professional groups. Namely, for example, to doctors, practices and others working in the health system.

As I already described here (5th paragraph), practice employees - here in a hospital - were not at all interested in the patient's vaccination status. Current experiences with two practices, one in the jaw area (operations etc.) and an ear, nose and throat practice also show no interest, no controls, and even a lack of inquiries. Yes, it can be the case that 'you have to treat patients anyway', which seems to make a corresponding control superfluous. But we currently have 7-day incidences of over 1,000! And the impression that is still conveyed from the health system is: It can't be that bad if even doctors, practices, etc. do not carry out any checks.

Based on the already existing Check-In functionality of the CWA and the fact that people can also be warned who were simply in the same place at the same time - e.g. in the doctor's waiting room - I would like to urgently encourage, and even demand, that The check-in function of the CWA must also be used here in practices. This, too, obviously requires marketing; you could also say: almost only marketing.

At the same time, I would like to suggest a revision on the CWA main screen under “Are you planning an event?” Which formulates the focus of “Event” (= organizer) in a much more general way, so that it becomes clear that this is where all the places where people come together are meant. Of course, the heading would also have to be changed. Analogously, a text adjustment under "Create QR code for event check-in" would also be necessary. (Here is a suggestion ... ... which you can certainly do even better.)

The medical professional representatives, the RKI, politics, etc. should of course also be on board! Cross reference: RKI's and CWA's screenshots about "Check-In" are out of date.... (I could imagine Karl Lauterbach, for example, could be helpful.)

PS: I would like to add a few more figures regarding the 'health system' in Germany to show the approximate dimension here, including doctor-patient contacts, etc. - not counting the contacts that arise in the waiting rooms, etc. (source: Kassenärtzliche Bundesvereinigung, Zahlen):

Key figures for outpatient care at a glance

• 180,581 doctors and psychotherapists take part in contract medical care.
• There are 101,932 practices in Germany.
• There are 553 million treatment cases per year in the practices.
• 1 billion times a year there is contact between a patient and a general practitioner or specialist.
• ...
• 250,000 medical assistants work for general practitioners.
• ...

[Jo-Achim]

PS: If we are now also thinking about a general vaccination requirement in Germany - but at least for certain professional groups / fields of activity / places of activity etc. - wouldn't it be even more appropriate to use the existing CWA “Check-In” in areas beyond pure event “Check-In”? (See above textual, but probably still incomplete, proposed amendment.)

Because the advantage of the CWA “Check-In” is the possible detection and “increased risk” warning when people were in one place, at the same time or at different / overlapping times (aerosol transmission and infection possibilities, even if the virus emitter is no longer on site) and a positive corona test was later carried out in this group of people.

If we are convinced of the benefits of the CWA and its "Check-In" functionalities, then we have to expand and enable these "Check-Ins" to all relevant areas as quickly as possible in order to get the greatest possible benefit - not just sometime in the future! In particular, but not only, at times of large-scale 7-day incidences of over 1,000 and daily new infections of over 70,000 and corresponding death rates.

In this context I would like to say thank you to the developers of the CWA and the associated team (including the posters here on GitHub). At the same time, knowing that nobody will be bored here, I personally consider nevertheless the above text adjustments to be urgently required. Simply to make the "Check-In" functionality and its possibilities clear on the side of the CWA main screen and to encourage its use.

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(Sorry, but this topic, the wasted opportunities and all the trappings are really annoying to me. And I am not directly or indirectly affected by Corona disease. But when we are already moving patients to other federal states with the rescue services and air force then I don't know what still has to happen in order to consistently use even the smallest, already existing, options. And think not only of the patients, but also of doctors, nurses, ..., in short, of everyone working in the healthcare system, some of whom have been working at their limits for round about 1¾ years. Not to mention those affected by Covid, their relatives and dead. I also leave out economic aspects here. And whoever thinks today that the pandemic will end in the foreseeable future, one can only wish that they are right. However, the chances of this are rather bad, because new variants are already on the rise and whether the hope that the virus will die itself will be fulfilled, is, like many things currently, unfortunately just a wish.)

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In this sense.