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 …

Applicability of mobile contact tracing in fighting pandemic (COVID-19): Issues, challenges and solutions

AB Dar, AH Lone, S Zahoor, AA Khan, R Naaz - Computer Science Review, 2020 - Elsevier
Contact Tracing is considered as the first and the most effective step towards containing an
outbreak, as resources for mass testing and large quantity of vaccines are highly unlikely …

How reliable is smartphone-based electronic contact tracing for COVID-19?

PH Kindt, T Chakraborty, S Chakraborty - Communications of the ACM, 2021 - dl.acm.org
How reliable is smartphone-based electronic contact tracing for COVID-19? Page 1 56
COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | JANUARY 2022 | VOL. 65 | NO. 1 contributed articles IMA …

[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 …

How detection ranges and usage stops impact digital contact tracing effectiveness for COVID-19

KD Pandl, S Thiebes, M Schmidt-Kraepelin… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
To combat the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries around the globe have adopted digital
contact tracing apps. Various technologies exist to trace contacts that are potentially prone to …

The adoption of contact tracing applications of COVID-19 by European governments

S Jacob, J Lawarée - Policy Design and Practice, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Contact tracing can be defined as the identification and the monitoring of each person who
has been in contact with an infected person. However, the effectiveness of manual contact …

Contact tracing for Covid-19—a digital inoculation against future pandemics

J O'Connell, DT O'Keeffe - New England Journal of Medicine, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Contact Tracing for Covid-19 Automation using geolocation tracking allowed South Korea to
trace contacts of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 reaching back to 14 days before …

We need to talk about digital contact tracing

A Alkhatib - Interactions, 2020 - dl.acm.org
OM 12: 10 pm to 1 pm I was close enough to you that our phones were talking. The 10-
minute example is something like standing behind someone in line at a coffee shop. The 50 …

[PDF][PDF] Effective configurations of a digital contact tracing app: a report to NHSX

R Hinch, W Probert, A Nurtay, M Kendall… - Retrieved …, 2020 - cdn.theconversation.com
Background Digital contact-tracing is being developed in several countries to tackle the
SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Manual contact tracing is too slow to reach people before they …

Privacy-preserving contact tracing: current solutions and open questions

Q Tang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.06818, 2020 - arxiv.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a unique challenge for the world to find solutions,
ranging from vaccines to ICT solutions to slow down the virus spreading. Due to the highly …