Fortune August 17, 2020
Sarah Kreps, Nina McMurry and Baobao Zhang

With COVID-19 cases climbing across the U.S. and manual contact tracing efforts to stem the spread of the disease faltering, officials are turning to a tech solution that nearly four dozen countries have adopted: digital contact tracing apps.

In the coming weeks, over 20 states and localities in the U.S. plan to roll out COVID-19 contact tracing apps based on a model developed by Google and Apple—one that relies on a phone’s Bluetooth signal to exchange digital handshakes with other devices in a six-foot range.

The data collected from the app is stored within a user’s phone, rather than on a government server, and only when an app user is diagnosed with COVID-19 are they asked by health authorities...

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Topics: Apps, Digital Health, Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Technology
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