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A new study shows that the number of cases on the Isle of Wight dropped significantly after both manual and digital contact-tracing programs launched. Should we give the app more credit?
Detailed tracking of COVID-19 numbers has spurred hopes of more quickly lifting social restrictions – and tamping down a new outbreak once constraints are eased.
Contact tracing: Data shows apps can help in fight against COVID, say researchers The team behind Switzerland's SwissCovid app have shown promising results for the tool.
A contact-tracing app isn't going to end the COVID-19 pandemic. But if enough people download them, it could help.
Although long-promised contact tracing apps aren’t a quick fix for the COVID-19 pandemic, they can help with reducing spread—assuming people use them correctly.
Notify, California's new COVID-19 contact tracing app, could help contain the pandemic — if authorities can persuade enough people to use it.
Cybercriminals could trace your device or access sensitive personal data through contact-tracing apps built for the coronavirus pandemic, a new report says.
Contact-tracing apps were held as essential to ending the pandemic, but even in countries that have had working products for months there is little evidence to support this, writes Allison Gardner ...
But does anyone pushing us to the inevitability of contact tracing apps get it? That said, contact tracing apps are not just unavoidable; we desperately need them.
Like many package tracking apps now, Deliveries can automatically detect when you have a tracking number in your clipboard.
U.S. States Are Rolling Out COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps. Months of Evidence From Europe Shows They’re No Silver Bullet ...
Contact-tracing apps are being suggested as one way to reduce the spread of Covid-19, in particular once lockdown rules soften, by letting people know if they’ve recently been near a person who ...