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Digital contact tracing's mixed record abroad spells trouble for US efforts to rein in COVID-19

  • Written by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
imageSouth Korea's success in containing COVID-19 came at the price of sacrificing privacy.AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

Two public health measures – testing, to identify those infected, and contact tracing, to identify those who may have encountered an infected person – have become essential as countries around the world reopen their economies...

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