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Accepted for/Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Date Submitted: May 18, 2020
Open Peer Review Period: May 18, 2020 - May 27, 2020
Date Accepted: Jun 4, 2020
Date Submitted to PubMed: Jun 5, 2020
(closed for review but you can still tweet)

The final, peer-reviewed published version of this preprint can be found here:

Case-Initiated COVID-19 Contact Tracing Using Anonymous Notifications

Cheng W, Hao C

Case-Initiated COVID-19 Contact Tracing Using Anonymous Notifications

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2020;8(6):e20369

DOI: 10.2196/20369

PMID: 32501802

PMCID: 7309447

Warning: This is an author submission that is not peer-reviewed or edited. Preprints - unless they show as "accepted" - should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.

COVID-19 Case-initiated contact tracing using anonymous notification techniques

  • Weibin Cheng; 
  • Chun Hao

ABSTRACT

Learning lessons from anonymous partner notification among people living with HIV/AIDS, we propose a concept of contact notification tool for assisting tracing contacts who are exposure to confirmed COVID-19 cases, which is simple and affordable for countries with limited health manpower and high-tech means.


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Please cite as:

Cheng W, Hao C

Case-Initiated COVID-19 Contact Tracing Using Anonymous Notifications

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2020;8(6):e20369

DOI: 10.2196/20369

PMID: 32501802

PMCID: 7309447

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