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People count : contact-tracing apps and public health / Susan Landau.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Landau, Susan Eva, author.
- Series:
- The MIT Press
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health surveillance--Technological innovations.
- Public health surveillance.
- Communicable diseases--Prevention--Technological innovations.
- Communicable diseases.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- An introduction to the technology of contact tracing and its usefulness for public health, considering questions of efficacy, equity, and privacy. Contact tracing is key to containing and controlling the spread of a virus in a pandemic. South Korea, China, and Singapore were among the few countries that quickly employed contact tracing after the emergence of COVID-19; the United States did not.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Landau, Susan Eva, author. People count : contact-tracing apps and public health
- ISBN:
- 0-262-36382-8
- 0-262-36381-X
- OCLC:
- 1202404963
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