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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