Smartphone apps in the COVID-19 pandemic

JA Pandit, JM Radin, G Quer, EJ Topol - Nature Biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, analog tools such as nasopharyngeal swabs
for PCR tests were center stage and the major prevention tactics of masking and physical …

Data science approaches to confronting the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative review

Q Zhang, J Gao, JT Wu, Z Cao… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
During the COVID-19 pandemic, more than ever, data science has become a powerful
weapon in combating an infectious disease epidemic and arguably any future infectious …

The epidemiological impact of the NHS COVID-19 app

C Wymant, L Ferretti, D Tsallis, M Charalambides… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen the emergence of digital contact tracing to help to
prevent the spread of the disease. A mobile phone app records proximity events between …

Effect of manual and digital contact tracing on covid-19 outbreaks: A study on empirical contact data

A Barrat, C Cattuto, M Kivelä… - Journal of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Non-pharmaceutical interventions are crucial to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic and
contain re-emergence phenomena. Targeted measures such as case isolation and contact …

Digital measurement of SARS-CoV-2 transmission risk from 7 million contacts

L Ferretti, C Wymant, J Petrie, D Tsallis, M Kendall… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
How likely is it to become infected by SARS-CoV-2 after being exposed? Almost everyone
wondered about this question during the COVID-19 pandemic. Contact-tracing apps …

Effectiveness of testing, contact tracing and isolation interventions among the general population on reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2: a systematic review

H Littlecott, C Herd, J O'Rourke… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We conducted a systematic literature review of general population testing, contact tracing,
case isolation and contact quarantine interventions to assess their effectiveness in reducing …

Bias in algorithms of AI systems developed for COVID-19: A scoping review

J Delgado, A de Manuel, I Parra, C Moyano… - Journal of bioethical …, 2022 - Springer
To analyze which ethically relevant biases have been identified by academic literature in
artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms developed either for patient risk prediction and triage, or …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiological impacts of the NHS COVID-19 app in England and Wales throughout its first year

M Kendall, D Tsallis, C Wymant, A Di Francia… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The NHS COVID-19 app was launched in England and Wales in September 2020, with a
Bluetooth-based contact tracing functionality designed to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV …

[HTML][HTML] Acceptability of the COVID-19 contact-tracing app–does culture matter?

MD Dzandu, B Pathak, S De Cesare - Government Information Quarterly, 2022 - Elsevier
During the pandemic, several countries deployed contact-tracing apps in order to contain or
reduce the community spread of COVID-19. However, the success rate in terms of …

When privacy, distrust, and misinformation cause worry about using COVID-19 contact-tracing apps

KKW Ho, DKW Chiu, KLC Sayama - IEEE Internet Computing, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Public health authorities worldwide are advocating for contact-tracing apps to help track
COVID-19 infections during the pandemic and interrupt virus transmission. However, app …