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Deploying decentralized, privacy-preserving proximity tracing
| Resumo: | [Excerpt] CONTACT TRACING IS a time-proven technique for breaking infection chains in epidemics. Public health officials interview those who come in contact with an infectious agent, such as a virus, to identify exposed, potentially infected people. These contacts are notified that they are at risk and should take efforts to avoid infecting others—for example, by going into quarantine, taking a test, wearing a mask continuously, or taking other precautionary measures. In March 2020, as the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was peaking, traditional manual contact tracing efforts in many countries were overwhelmed by the sheer volume of cases; by the rapid speed at which SARS-CoV-2 spread; and by the large fraction of asymptomatic, yet infectious, individuals. [...] |
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| Autores principais: | Troncoso, Carmela |
| Outros Autores: | Bogdanov, Dan; Bugnion, Edouard; Chatel, Sylvain; Cremers, Cas; Gurses, Seda; Hubaux, Jean-Pierre; Jackson, Dennis; Larus, James R.; Lueks, Wouter; Oliveira, Rui Carlos Mendes de; Payer, Mathias; Preneel, Bart; Pyrgelis, Apostolos; Salathe, Marcel; Stadler, Theresa; Veale, Michael |
| Assunto: | Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | [Excerpt] CONTACT TRACING IS a time-proven technique for breaking infection chains in epidemics. Public health officials interview those who come in contact with an infectious agent, such as a virus, to identify exposed, potentially infected people. These contacts are notified that they are at risk and should take efforts to avoid infecting others—for example, by going into quarantine, taking a test, wearing a mask continuously, or taking other precautionary measures. In March 2020, as the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was peaking, traditional manual contact tracing efforts in many countries were overwhelmed by the sheer volume of cases; by the rapid speed at which SARS-CoV-2 spread; and by the large fraction of asymptomatic, yet infectious, individuals. [...] |
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