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What happened to those COVID exposure apps?

Feb 8, 2022
Consumers have been slow to adopt apps made by state governments based on tech from Google and Apple.
A COVIDWISE logo is displayed on a mobile phone screen on Aug. 6, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia.
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Contact-tracing program aims to spread safety at Miami Beach businesses

Feb 10, 2021
The area's hospitality industry has suffered economically during the pandemic.
The North Beach Bandshell is an outdoor performance venue in Florida’s Miami Beach that’s part of a contact tracing program called Race to Trace.
Verónica Zaragovia

Survey shows mixed feelings about contract tracing, quarantining

Nov 2, 2020
As cases surge in the U.S., experts are increasingly worried about cooperation with contract tracers.
A woman looks out from her front door while quarantining at  home this April in Long Island, New York.
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What does a contact tracer's job entail?

Jun 30, 2020
As states look for contact tracers to track potential coronavirus transmission, people with strong communication skills and an ability to work with people under stress are good candidates.
A contact tracer in Brussels. The U.S. could need as many as 100,000 of them to track potential coronavirus transmission.
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The search for contact tracers

Jun 12, 2020
Despite high unemployment, governments are having trouble finding enough people to track and reduce COVID-19 transmission. Requirements vary from state to state.
Contact tracers at work in Belgium. The U.S. is struggling to hire enough of them to reduce transmission of the coronavirus.
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Apple, Google plan to release contact-tracing tool this week

Apr 28, 2020
But what assurances are there that the data is private?
The Australian government's contact tracing app, COVIDSafe. Apple and Google worked together on their own tech-based solution.
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States are trying to build armies of coronavirus contact tracers

Apr 23, 2020
But public health departments have been chronically underfunded.
Contact tracers try to find everyone a person who tested positive for COVID-19 has come into contact with.
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