Digital Contact tracing in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A tool far from reality

Digital contact tracing applications are being developed by governments across the world, to track and trace contacts. With little evidence, citizens are being forced and made to believe that it is an important step in pandemic control. We discuss briefly if contact tracing will be successful in the...

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Autores principales: Hegde, Ajay, Masthi, Ramesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Opinion Piece
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7459176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32939289
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055207620946193
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spelling pubmed-74591762020-09-01 Digital Contact tracing in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A tool far from reality Hegde, Ajay Masthi, Ramesh Digit Health Opinion Piece Digital contact tracing applications are being developed by governments across the world, to track and trace contacts. With little evidence, citizens are being forced and made to believe that it is an important step in pandemic control. We discuss briefly if contact tracing will be successful in the control of the Corona virus pandemic or is it just a tool governments are using to cover their helplessness. SAGE Publications 2020-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7459176/ /pubmed/32939289 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055207620946193 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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