Study Suggests Smartphone App for COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Oxford University scientists published a study Tuesday advocating use of smartphone apps for instant digital contact tracing to lessen COVID-19's spread. “Viral spread is too fast to be contained by manual contact tracing, but could be controlled if this process…
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was faster, more efficient and happened at scale,” said the study. “A contact-tracing App which builds a memory of proximity contacts and immediately notifies contacts of positive cases can achieve epidemic control if used by enough people.” The “core functionality is to replace a week’s work of manual contact tracing with instantaneous signals transmitted to and from a central server,” it said.