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.

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, ...

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 ...

Bitter enemies teamed up to build tools they hoped would help slow the virus’s spread. If we’ve learned anything from covid-19, it’s the extent to which our lives are enmeshed with those of the people ...

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, ...

Exposure notification, a type of digital contact tracing, is an avenue to combat COVID-19 in the U.S., but each state and territory has to carry out their own tracing. Here's who's doing what, updated ...

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 ...

What’s going on with the U.K.’s coronavirus contacts-tracing app? Reports in the national press today suggest a launch of the much-delayed software will happen this month but also that the app will no ...

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 ...

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 ...