The MI COVID Alert app is supposed to warn you if you’ve been near an infected person. My phone has been suspiciously silent. Credit: Lee DeVito About a year ago, Michigan got a new weapon in its ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Bluetooth-based system predicted close contacts with an accuracy between 0.88 and 1. The system also ...

A team of experts at the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford and Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick estimate the NHS COVID-19 app prevented around 1 million ...

Covid-19 has turned our lives upside down. But it has also been a catalyst for plenty of new technology, and it made apps even more popular than they were pre-pandemic. Among the most controversial ...

Thousands of Americans could soon join the ranks of disease detectives in one of the most important battles against coronavirus. Contact tracing has helped slow or stop previous epidemics, such as the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Researchers at Ohio State University said Thursday that they’ve found a “major flaw” in smartphone apps used to alert people if they’ve been exposed to COVID-19, but there is a ...

Less than two months into the school year, the valley’s three school districts have reported hundreds of cases of COVID-19 between students and staff. As of Oct. 6, Desert Sands Unified has reported ...

Contact tracing has been a core component of the public health response to the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Its main objective is to interrupt transmission chains by identifying people who ...

A unified mobile app for COVID-19 prevention and control has been launched by the Vietnamese government. Among major features, the PC-Covid Vietnam app, now available on the Apple App Store and Google ...