Can Bluetooth tech really get us back to some resemblance of a normal life? Bridget Carey explains the big challenges around contact tracing apps and what it will take for the apps to make a difference. Intrigued? read more about it here.. The purpose of contact tracing is to break chains of transmission, explains Crystal Watson, a senior scholar with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. It is a very well-used public health intervention which has been used for decades to track a variety of infections.
Rapid, accurate, timely contact tracing is critical to containing the COVID-19 pandemic, yet the process is time consuming and relies on a diagnosed person to recall everyone they may have come in contact with in the past two weeks. To augment this manual approach, an MIT team has developed an automated, smartphone-assisted approach that permits effective contact tracing while preserving privacy.
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