Health Affairs May 19, 2020
Contact tracing for COVID-19 is a necessary tool to allow communities to reopen. Unfortunately, because of the speed and numbers of COVID-19 cases, manual contact tracing is unlikely to be sufficient. Digital contact tracing can provide enough capacity but comes with serious privacy concerns.
Digital contact tracing substitutes mobile apps for individuals who track down instances of COVID-19 exposure through interviews with coronavirus carriers. Individuals install these applications on their phones. The app uses either GPS or Bluetooth data to record when two users have been in close proximity of each other for a sufficiently long period of time for the virus to be transmitted. When a user reports that he or she is COVID-19 positive, the application can immediately...
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