SARS-CoV-2,

Luca Ferretti1, Chris Wymant1, Michelle Kendall1

  • 1Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|April 3, 2020
PubMed
まとめ

SARS-CoV-2 (重症急性呼吸器症候群-コロナウイルス2) のデジタル接触者追跡は,流行の拡大を制御することができます. 接触者追跡アプリは,広く採用されれば,感染した個人を迅速に通知し,広範なロックダウンを防ぐことができます.

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