Digital contact tracing for COVID-19

RA Kleinman, C Merkel - Cmaj, 2020 - Can Med Assoc
Contact-tracing apps have 5 major limitations. First, the effectiveness of a contact-tracing
app is dependent on the degree of adoption: an app's potential to identify contacts varies …

Behind COVID-19 contact trace apps: The Google–Apple partnership

K Michael, R Abbas - IEEE Consumer electronics magazine, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Michael and Abbas - Google Apple Partner 160520v4 Page 1 Getting Behind COVID-19
Contact Trace Apps: The GoogleApple Partnership Katina Michael School for the Future of …

COVID-19 contact tracing and privacy: A longitudinal study of public opinion

L Simko, J Chang, M Jiang, R Calo, F Roesner… - … Threats: Research and …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
There is growing use of technology-enabled contact tracing, the process of identifying
potentially infected COVID-19 patients by notifying all recent contacts of an infected person …

COVID-19 contact tracing: challenges and future directions

MJM Chowdhury, MS Ferdous, K Biswas… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contact tracing has become a vital tool for public health officials to effectively combat the
spread of new diseases, such as the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19. Contact tracing …

Digital smartphone tracking for COVID-19: public health and civil liberties in tension

IG Cohen, LO Gostin, DJ Weitzner - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Contact investigations have been a vital public health strategy, most recently in controlling
tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections including HIV. Yet, the sheer scale of severe …

Coronavirus contact tracing: Evaluating the potential of using bluetooth received signal strength for proximity detection

DJ Leith, S Farrell - ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Many countries are deploying Covid-19 contact tracing apps that use Bluetooth Low Energy
(LE) to detect proximity within 2m for 15 minutes. However, Bluetooth LE is an unproven …

A survey of COVID-19 contact tracing apps

N Ahmed, RA Michelin, W Xue, S Ruj, R Malaney… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has taken the world by surprise, forcing lockdowns and
straining public health care systems. COVID-19 is known to be a highly infectious virus, and …

Digital contact tracing: technologies, shortcomings, and the path forward

A Trivedi, D Vasisht - ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, technology enthusiasts have pushed for digital
contact tracing as a critical tool for breaking the COVID-19 transmission chains. Motivated by …

Nationwide rollout reveals efficacy of epidemic control through digital contact tracing

A Elmokashfi, J Sundnes, A Kvalbein… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Fuelled by epidemiological studies of SARS-CoV-2, contact tracing by mobile phones has
been put to use in many countries. Over a year into the pandemic, we lack conclusive …

[PDF][PDF] Digital tools for COVID-19 contact tracing: annex: contact tracing in the context of COVID-19, 2 June 2020

World Health Organization - 2020 - apps.who.int
Background Contact tracing is an essential public health measure and a critical component
of comprehensive strategies to control the spread of COVID-19. Contact tracing breaks the …