When the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services launched COVID Trace, one of the nation’s first COVID-19 contact-tracing smartphone apps, on Aug. 24, state health authorities “strongly ...

(TNS) — The digital contact tracing effort in Virginia is 2 million phones strong. Roughly a quarter of the adult population has downloaded the state’s COVIDWISE app or opted in on their iPhones to ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. California rolled out a COVID-19 contact tracing app this week, and officials — including Apple CEO Tim Cook — ...

The coronavirus hasn’t gone anywhere. Even as countries scramble to reopen, case numbers continue to rise, and despite a lot of talk about building systems to curtail a second wave, many governments ...

One of the biggest challenges for contact tracing apps aimed at fighting COVID-19 is a lack of participation – and distrust in Western Pennsylvania appears to run particularly high, thanks in no small ...

Analysis by the scientists who worked on the first version of NHSX's contact-tracing app might help provide a tentative answer to the question that is dividing politicians and experts: does the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a rapid response to try to contain the virus' global spread. However, whenever speed is a factor, security and privacy often fall by the wayside. This is especially true ...

Almost four weeks after the nation-wide launch of its centralized contact-tracing app StopCovid, the French government is patting itself on the back. And not least because StopCovid is one of the only ...

Florian Vogt receives a fellowship from the Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infection Disease Emergencies (APPRISE) Centre of Research Excellence (CRE), funded by the National ...