April 27, 2020

Contact Tracing: a game of big numbers in the time of COVID-19

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Public Health Policy and Practice

• Kim and Paul studied the characteristics of automated contact tracing and its effectiveness for mapping the spread of SARS-CoV-2. They highlight the infrastructure and social structures required for automated contact tracing to work, and further display vulnerabilities of the strategy to sufficiently determine significant contact with infected individuals. They conclude that a strong reliance on contact tracing to contain the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic can lead to the potential danger of allowing the pandemic to spread unchecked.

Kim and Paul. (April 22, 2020). Contact Tracing: a game of big numbers in the time of COVID-19. Preprint download Apr 27 from: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.22.20071043