People Count: Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health

by Susan Landau

An introduction to the technology of contact tracing and its usefulness for public health, considering questions of efficacy, equity, and privacy.

How do you stop a pandemic before a vaccine arrives? Contact tracing is key, the first step in a process that has proven effective: trace, test, and isolate. Smartphones can collect some of the information required by contact tracers--not just where you've been but also who's been near you...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262045710
• ISBN13: 9780262045711
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"