contact tracing
Infection chain mapping
Contact tracing is the public health practice of identifying people who have been in close proximity to someone with an infectious disease.
Health workers interview infected individuals, then reach out to their contacts to recommend testing, monitoring, or quarantine.
The method became widely familiar during the COVID-19 pandemic: Contact tracers worked around the clock as cases surged.
Sudden eruption of trouble
- transmissionSending of information
- exposureState of being unprotected
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- isolationComplete separation from others
patient zero · cluster · infection · pandemic · epidemic · public health · incubation · spread
Mobile device software
- BluetoothShort-range wireless protocol
- GPSSatellite-based location technology
- digitalOf discrete data
- smartphoneHandheld connected computer
notification · QR code · check-in · proximity · data privacy · anonymization · opt-in · interoperability
outbreak
Sudden eruption of trouble
- transmissionSending of information
- exposureState of being unprotected
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
isolation · patient zero · cluster · infection · pandemic · epidemic · public health · incubation · spread · carrier
app
Mobile device software
smartphone · notification · QR code · check-in · proximity · data privacy · anonymization · opt-in · interoperability · alert
- tracing & tracking
- quarantinemandatory quarantine, quarantine period, quarantine facilities, quarantine laws, quarantine stations
- global healthdisease, pandemic, World Health Organization, medications, pandemics
- pandemiclockdowns, COVID-19, outbreak, epidemic, COVID
- public healthdisease prevention, immunization, disease control, health education, epidemiology
- pandemic measuressocial distancing, hand sanitizer, N95 masks, face shields, temperature checks
contact tracingvaccination
Administered immunity booster
doing nothing · mass vaccination · treatment · herd immunity · mass immunization
contact tracinganonymity
Unknown identity state
privacy protection · anonymous testing · off-grid living · digital privacy
contact tracinganonymity
Unknown identity state
privacy protection · opt-out · personal autonomy · confidentiality
track, trace, contact, tracking, tracing, contacts, retrace, contacted, tracker