Medical Xpress July 12, 2024
Researchers analyzing data from mobile phone apps used during the COVID-19 pandemic found that digital contact tracing provides rich insights into epidemic dynamics with unprecedented resolution and speed, revealing how transmission varied by day of the week, gatherings during the 2021 Christmas period, and the UEFA Euro football tournament in July 2021.
Digital contact tracing uses a proximity-detecting phone app to alert people at risk of being infected. It was implemented for COVID-19 in the U.K. by the NHS, and also in many other countries.
In a new study published in Science, researchers from the University of Oxford’s Pandemic Sciences Institute, the University of Warwick and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) analyzed data from these apps. They found that...
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