Privacy concerns have states taking it slow on contact tracing apps

StateScoop: From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been clear that state and local health authorities would have to undertake one of the biggest contact-tracing efforts in medical history.

Contact tracing — in which patients are interviewed about where they’ve been and who they’ve seen recently — is a centuries-old practice, and a staple of public health efforts since at least the 1920s. Over the decades, it’s been relied upon to help control flu outbreaks, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and Ebola.

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