Colorado is hoping to dramatically expand its coronavirus contact-tracing and notification capacity starting this weekend, with the launch of a new phone application that can alert someone if they’ve been exposed to…
CPR News” New Phone App To Track Colorado Coronavirus Exposure Will Arrive This Weekend”
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) is launching new mobile technology this weekend to help slow the spread of COVID-19. The Exposure Notification System is a mobile service developed…
BBC: “Contact tracing apps: Worth the hype?”
Why contact tracing technology has been slow to make an impact. Ed Butler speaks to Jenny Wanger from the Linux Foundation Public Health in the US where many states are only now…
Digital Contact Tracing and Alerting vs Exposure Notification
This article was originally published by Harper Reed on April 22, 2020 on his blog. We republish it here because LFPH continues to get inquiries about the difference in terminology and language…
NBC News: “Covid apps went through the hype cycle. Now, they might be ready to work.”
In June, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said digital alerts weren’t something his state was working on. Now, New Jersey’s app has logged more than 105,000 downloads.
Open Source Makes Exposure Notification Apps Cost-Effective, Easier to Deploy
Momentum is building for COVID-19 exposure notification as health authorities realize the benefits of having technology that’s easy and inexpensive to deploy. On October 1st, New York and New Jersey both launched…
Six months after it was announced, the tech that Apple and Google built for sending Covid-19 exposure alerts to smartphones is finally gaining momentum in the United States. New York and New…
Quartz: “US states are finally rolling out Covid-19 exposure notification apps”
For the first six months of the pandemic, the US lagged behind dozens of other countries in rolling out apps to alert citizens when they’ve come in contact with someone who has…
Vox: “Americans are one step closer to a national contact tracing app for Covid-19”
It may have gotten off to a slow start, but digital Covid-19 contact tracing apps are finally picking up steam in the United States — and may have surmounted one of their…
COVID-19 Exposure Notification Express vs. Custom App: Which to Choose?
Apple and Google recently announced EN Express (ENX), a way for Public Health Authorities (PHAs) to launch a lightweight Exposure Notification capability to battle COVID-19.