ContactTracing

Apps powered by the Google/Apple Exposure Notification framework (GAEN) are widely available in many countries and operate more efficiently in your phone's background. But researchers from…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists…

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BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LSU Electrical & Computer Engineering Professor Lu Peng and a team of ECE undergraduate and graduate students have developed a…

Mathematical modeling of disease spread suggests that herd immunity could be achieved with fewer vaccine doses by using Bluetooth-based contact-tracing apps to identify people who have more…

More than a thousand web apps mistakenly exposed 38 million records on the open internet, including data from a number of Covid-19 contact tracing platforms, vaccination sign-ups, job…

By Amanda Michelle Gomez Health departments nationwide scaled back their contact tracing in late spring or early summer when covid-19 cases started to decrease as vaccination…

People Count: Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health • By Susan Landau • MIT Press • 165 pages •…

Credit: Shutterstock/Rawpixel.com The astonishing rise of smartphones in everyday life has…

Cruise operators, whose U.S. operations have been suspended for more than a year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, are betting on technology to help keep passengers safe when they finally start…