‘Potentially powerful’ automated tool could help fight COVID, future pandemics in hospitals
In the battle against COVID-19, contact tracing has proven to be a vital weapon in curbing the spread of the virus. While numerous contact tracing methods have emerged, manual contact tracing methods are often slow and inaccurate while smartphone-based tracing suffers low adoption rates, due in part to privacy concerns. Furthermore, these solutions do not work effectively for health-care workers at high risk for infections.