The product lead of TraceTogether, Singapore’s digital contact tracing app, said traditional ... and Medicaid Services Andy Slavitt, sent a letter to Congress last month calling for funding ...

Several countries have effectively limited the spread of COVID-19 by using digital technology in unprecedented ways, implementing core public health techniques such as case detection, contact tracing, ...

Like many things meant to slow the pandemic, however, digital contact tracing hasn’t yielded the lifesaving results we needed. In fact, it barely made a dent. Why? In many countries, limiting ...

We are particularly concerned that the normalization of digital contact tracing would be a double blow for communities in the United States and abroad that have suffered longstanding human rights ...

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, ...

Knowing who can safely reenter public spaces demands extensive contagion testing, contact tracing and sharing medical information long deemed “private.” Especially for the digital generation ...

Unfortunately, because of the speed and numbers of COVID-19 cases, manual contact tracing is unlikely to be sufficient. Digital contact tracing can provide enough capacity but comes with serious ...