Digital contact tracing with proximity detecting cell phone apps led to a substantial reduction of Covid-19 in the UK. With more widespread use, it might be able to contain the epidemic altogether.

Digital contact tracing, if built in a voluntary, privacy-protective way using Apple and Google’s new Bluetooth-based standards, may allow the public to play a role in containing the coronavirus ...

Outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) emerged in the United States and in European countries in February 2020. Urgent action was called for, since experts estimated that 30 to 70% of people ...

As the pandemic progresses, there’s been significant attention directed at new digital approaches to supplement traditional contact tracing, defined by the World Health Organization as “identifying, ...

In infectious disease outbreaks, digital contact tracing alone could reduce the number of cases, but not as much as manual contract tracing, new research reveals. In infectious disease outbreaks, ...

Technology companies are offering a new tool to countries and states trying to reopen their economies amid the coronavirus pandemic: digital contact tracing applications. Touted as a way to track ...

Tracing the contacts of those who have Covid-19 is an important element of stopping its spread and making it safer to re-open our society and economy. Manual tracing is hard and error-prone, so the ...

Two businesspeople on their phones exchanging numbers. In today’s digital era, you might think of business cards as a relic of the past. In reality, they’re just as practical as ever. Digital business ...

Contact tracing for COVID-19 is a necessary tool to allow communities to reopen. Unfortunately, because of the speed and numbers of COVID-19 cases, manual contact tracing is unlikely to be sufficient.

Contact tracing is crucial to slowing the spread of COVID-19 – and technology can enhance traditional efforts. In part one of a new video series, Professor Jonathan Zittrain provides a concise primer ...