Contact-Tracing Apps in Contact Tracing of COVID-19

Das Gesundheitswesen
Tina JahnelAnsgar Gerhardus

Abstract

Contact tracing is currently one of the most effective measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to identify persons that would otherwise not be known or remembered and to keep the time delay when reporting an infection and when contacting people as short as possible, digital contact tracing using smartphones seems to be a reasonable measure additional to manual contact tracing. Although first modelling studies predicted a positive effect in terms of prompt contact tracing, no empirically reliable data are as yet available, neither on the population-wide benefit nor on the potential risks of contact tracing apps. Risk-benefit assessment of such an app includes investigating whether such an app fulfils its purpose, as also research on the effectiveness, risks and side effects, and implementation processes (e. g. planning and inclusion of different participants). The aim of this article was to give an overview of possible public health benefits as well as technical, social, legal and ethical aspects of a contact-tracing app in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, conditions for the widest possible use of the app are presented.

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Jan 13, 2021·Vaccines·Birgit M Prüβ
Oct 7, 2021·JMIR Public Health and Surveillance·Kelly Jean Thomas CraigGretchen Purcell Jackson
Nov 9, 2021·International Journal of Public Health·Christian KrauthBernt-Peter Robra

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