Published on in Vol 9 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/49560, first published .
Combatting SARS-CoV-2 With Digital Contact Tracing and Notification: Navigating Six Points of Failure

Combatting SARS-CoV-2 With Digital Contact Tracing and Notification: Navigating Six Points of Failure

Combatting SARS-CoV-2 With Digital Contact Tracing and Notification: Navigating Six Points of Failure

Joanna Masel   1 , BSc, DPhil ;   James Ian Mackie Petrie   2, 3, 4 , BASc, MMath, PhD ;   Jason Bay   5 , BS, MSc ;   Wolfgang Ebbers   6 , PhD ;   Aalekh Sharan   7 , BEng, MBA ;   Scott Michael Leibrand   8 , BS ;   Andreas Gebhard   9 ;   Samuel Zimmerman   10 , BA

1 Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States

2 Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

3 Pandemic Sciences Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

4 Big Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

5 Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

6 Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

7 Aarogya Setu, Government of India, New Delhi, India

8 Community Epidemiology in Action (coEpi), Seattle, WA, United States

9 Temporary Contact Number Protocol (TCN) Coalition, New York, NY, United States

10 PathCheck, Cambridge, MA, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Joanna Masel, BSc, DPhil
  • Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
  • University of Arizona
  • 1041 E Lowell St
  • Tucson, AZ, 85721
  • United States
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  • Email: masel@arizona.edu