What Is Contact Tracing And Why Is Big Data Being Used To Fight Coronavirus? | Forbes

The concept of contact tracing is fairly straightforward. When someone is discovered to be infected with a certain pathogen (that is, a certain disease-causing microbe), you then try to determine everyone whom that person may have had effective contact with while the person has been infectious. And everyone means everyone.

As countries begin to reopen their economies and loosen COVID-19 related restrictions, big data is being used as a tool to draw a more accurate picture of the spread of the virus. Forbes spoke to the creators of two different apps with two different approaches to leveraging coronavirus data.

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[AdeMolajo]

Big data? I swear those were crypto mining machines...

[raysarlie]

NOVID still needs access to your microphone and listens in standby mode... 🤔

[aaaada]

What about asymptomatic cases? Where they don't really show any symptoms?

[TheSysrocked]

There should be only one of these tracking app. Think about the effectiveness of tracking when we have 100’s of tracking apps.