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The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented period where contact tracing and public health efforts were put to the test. [32] Creative strategies were used to sustain public health efforts. [ 32 ] Non-health personnel and volunteers were used to meet the shortage of contact tracers. [ 32 ]
Digital contact tracing is a method of contact tracing relying on tracking systems, most often based on mobile devices, to determine contact between an infected patient and a user. [2] It came to public prominence in the form of COVID-19 apps during the COVID-19 pandemic. [3] [4] [5] Since the initial outbreak, many groups have developed ...
Below, Flynn answers 10 questions about the history of contact tracing and what a contract tracer does in a COVID and nonCOVID context. RC: What is a contact tracer? MF: Contact tracers ...
COVID-19 surveillance involves monitoring the spread of the coronavirus disease in order to establish the patterns of disease progression. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends active surveillance, with focus of case finding, testing and contact tracing in all transmission scenarios. [1] COVID-19 surveillance is expected to monitor ...
As public health officials point to contact tracing as a key component for tracking the spread of the coronavirus and preventing a flare-up of cases amid the wave of reopenings, some agencies are ...
Exposure Notification. The (Google/Apple) Exposure Notification System ( GAEN) [ 2][ 3][ a] is a framework and protocol specification developed by Apple Inc. and Google to facilitate digital contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic. When used by health authorities, it augments more traditional contact tracing techniques by automatically ...
Traditional manual contact-tracing procedures are not efficient enough for the COVID-19 pandemic, and do not consider asymptomatic transmission. [1] Contact-tracing apps, on the other hand, can be effective COVID-19 contact-tracing tools that reduce R value to less than 1, leading to sustained epidemic suppression. [ 1 ]
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