Background Reducing the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS‐CoV‐2) is a global priority. Contact tracing identifies people who were recently in …

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic increased attention to digital tools to support
governmental public health policies in East and South-East Asia. Mobile apps related to the …

Contact-tracing apps have 5 major limitations. First, the effectiveness of a contact-tracing
app is dependent on the degree of adoption: an app's potential to identify contacts varies …

The global health threat from COVID-19 has been controlled in a number of instances by
large-scale testing and contact tracing efforts. We created this document to suggest three …

There is growing interest in contact tracing apps (CT apps) for pandemic management. It is
crucial to consider ethical requirements before, while, and after implementing such apps. In …

As nations race to hone contact-tracing efforts, the world's experts consider strategies for
maximum transparency and impact. As public health professionals around the world work …

Background: Since the COVID-19 outbreak began in Wuhan, China, countries worldwide
have been forced to take unprecedented measures to combat it. While some countries are …

Several digital contact tracing smartphone applications have been developed worldwide in
the effort to combat COVID-19 that warn users of potential exposure to infectious patients …

The deployment of technologies to track and mitigate the spread COVID-19 has surfaced
tensions between individual autonomy and the collective good. These tensions reflect a …

Pandemic-tracking apps may form a future infrastructure for public health surveillance. Yet,
there has been relatively little exploration of the potential societal implications of such an …