Dr. David Brailer

[Said in the context of COVID] “And it comes down to this: being able to access information about—that comes from your phone geolocation data, for example—that allows you to know if you are positive, where you've been, and therefore what phones have come in contact with you. And it's not perfect, but it rapidly and radically automates the contact tracing process that takes so many people…And if we can leverage that with IT, like South Korea or Taiwan has done, so, we can quickly alert you that you've been in contact with someone that is positive and use that for rapid tracing and testing and frankly, for the enforcement of quarantine, because we know if you're out and about or social isolation. We know if your phone's close to people… On the other hand, I just described things that would be deep incursions into the liberty and privacy of the American public that the government has no authorization to do unless there is truly an emergency declaration on the scale of a nuclear war.”

“I think there should be a capacity during an emergency like this [COVID19], when we declare a public health emergency, to kind of, if you would, break the glass and access authorities and powers that would normally not be available in terms of enforcing quarantines, in terms of moving material in mankind around, if you would kind of nationalizing healthcare resources to a degree that we can operate the capacity of hospitals in New York as one, which, by the way, has done, and it's been done through a collaboration of the state, city and private leadership.”