Leo Samuels, Novak Boskov, Andreas Francisco Oliveira, Edwin Sun, David Starobinski, Ari Trachtenberg, Manan Monga, Mayank Varia, Ran Canetti, Anand Devaiah, Gerald V Denis
In the current COVID-19 pandemic, various Automated Exposure Notification (AEN) systems have been proposed to help quickly identify potential contacts of infected individuals. All these systems try to leverage the current understanding of the following factors: transmission risk, technology to address risk modeling, system policies and privacy considerations. While AEN holds promise for mitigating the spread of COVID-19, using short-range communication channels (Bluetooth) in smartphones to detect close individual contacts may be inaccurate for modeling and informing transmission risk...
December 2022: Journal of Young Investigators