COVID|19 and Digital Contact Tracing

COVID-19 digital contact tracing applications and techniques

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of digital contact tracing solutions in terms of their methodologies and technologies.

Digital Contact Tracing Applications against COVID-19

Our results suggest that digitalized contact tracing methods can be beneficial for impeding the progress of COVID-19.

COVID-19 digital contact tracing worked — heed the lessons for ...

Data show that these privacy-preserving tools saved thousands of lives during the pandemic. National and international authorities must invest in the ...

Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic Response

A comprehensive report to help government, technology developers, businesses, institutional leaders and the public make responsible decisions around use of ...

Effectiveness of a COVID-19 contact tracing app in a simulation ...

However, also with the digital contact tracing app, control by social distancing measures remained necessary. Since the start of the pandemic many studies have ...

"A New Normal: How COVID-19 and Digital Contact Tracing ...

Contact tracing helps epidemiologists identify individuals who have been exposed to a virus. Manual contact tracing has been used for decades to interrupt ...

Digital contact tracing - Wikipedia

Proposal for a location-based COVID-19 contact tracing app: Contacts of individual A (and all users of the app) are traced using GPS co-localisations with other ...

Anatomy of digital contact tracing: Role of age, transmission setting ...

The efficacy of digital contact tracing against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic is debated: Smartphone penetration is limited in many countries ...

Tracking COVID-19: Contact Tracing in the Digital Age

Contact tracing is the process of identifying all people that a COVID-19 patient has come in contact with in the last two weeks.

Effectiveness evaluation of digital contact tracing for COVID-19 in ...

We evaluated the effectiveness and usefulness of COVIDSafe, Australia's national smartphone-based proximity tracing app for COVID-19.

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Contact tracing

Contact tracing is the process of identifying, assessing, and managing people who have been exposed to someone who has been infected with the COVID-19 virus.

The Tech Behind COVID-19 Contact Tracing | U.S. GAO

Contact tracing apps use digital technology (like smartphones) to track the spread of infectious diseases. These apps detect contacts using either Bluetooth, ...

Protecting Privacy In Digital Contact Tracing For COVID-19

Digital contact tracing substitutes mobile apps for individuals who track down instances of COVID-19 exposure through interviews with coronavirus carriers.

COVID-19: Digital Contact Tracing and Privacy Law - CRS Reports

These proposals raise questions about how federal laws governing health information privacy may apply to electronic or digital contact tracing.

The need for privacy with public digital contact tracing ... - The Lancet

Digital contact tracing applications represent a powerful yet controversial strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Manual contact tracing has important ...

State Approaches to Contact Tracing during the COVID-19 Pandemic

... contact tracing policy. Those diagnosed with COVID-19 are sent an online survey; contact tracing shifted to surveillance of targeted groups ...

Ethics of Digital Contact Tracing to Contain the COVID-19 Pandemic

Digital contact tracing can accelerate identifying newly diagnosed patients, instantly informing past contacts about their risk of infection and supporting ...

Covid-19 Digital Contact Tracing Study

The European Commission published on 12 December a study on lessons learned, best practices and epidemiological impact of digital Covid-19 contact tracing ...

Digital contact tracing apps: do they actually work? A review of early ...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many smartphone apps were launched to complement and augment manual contact tracing efforts without a ...

Use of a digital contact tracing system in Singapore to mitigate ...

Contact tracing has been essential to reducing spread of COVID-19. Singapore leveraged technology to assist with contact tracing efforts ...