Cellphone tracking could help stem the spread of coronavirus. Is privacy the price?
Cellphone tracking could help stem the spread of coronavirus. Is privacy the price?
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手机追踪可以帮助阻止冠状病毒的传播。
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2020
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K. Servick
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作者：
K. Servick
“有可能阻止流行病“这是牛津大学一个团队本周建立的一个网站上发布的信息，该网站旨在分享关于新型冠状病毒传播的新研究。为了阻止病毒的传播，卫生官员需要找到并隔离感染者的接触者，他们中的很多人，这种接触追踪是传染病控制的支柱，但牛津大学的研究小组是目前倡导一种新方法的几个研究小组之一：利用手机位置数据来追踪感染的传播，并警告可能接触过的人
“IT IS POSSIBLE TO STOP THE EPIDEMIC ” That’s the message splashed atop a website built by a University of Oxford team this week to share new research on the spread of the novel coronavirus Below that hopeful statement comes a big caveat: To stop the virus’ spread, health officials need to find and isolate the contacts of infected people—lots of them—and fast Such contact tracing is a mainstay of infectious disease control But the Oxford team is one of several now advocating for a new approach: tapping into cellphone location data to track the spread of infection and warn people who may have been exposed