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Do we need a Contact Tracing App?

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arxiv 2005.10187 v2 pith:FHL7PGUG submitted 2020-05-20 cs.CY cs.NI

Leonardo Maccari , Valeria Cagno This is my paper · ORCID
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The goal of this paper is to shed some light on the usefulness of a contact tracing smartphone app for the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic. We review the basics of contact tracing during the spread of a virus, we contextualize the numbers to the case of COVID-19 and we analyse the state of the art for proximity detection using Bluetooth Low Energy. Our contribution is to assess if there is scientific evidence of the benefit of a contact tracing app in slowing down the spread of the virus using present technologies. Our conclusion is that such evidence is lacking, and we should re-think the introduction of such a privacy-invasive measure.

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