{"id":1426,"date":"2020-10-11T13:21:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2020-10-11T13:21:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:21:29","slug":"using-contact-tracing-and-gps-to-fight-spread-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/?p=1426","title":{"rendered":"Using contact tracing and GPS to fight spread of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contact tracing can help stem the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. It involves tracking the movement and interactions of infected individuals to identify others at risk.<\/p>\n<p>National and regional responses to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpsworld.com\/gps-world-coverage-of-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 pandemic<\/a> have included containment through quarantine and restriction of movement. When properly implemented, these solutions limit spread of the contagion to prevent it from overwhelming healthcare and emergency management systems.<\/p>\n<p>According to the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and virtually all medical professionals, any effective strategy to return the world to normal requires three components: testing, contact tracing and isolation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpsworld.com\/using-contact-tracing-and-gps-to-fight-spread-of-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read More&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact tracing can help stem the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. It involves tracking the movement and interactions of infected individuals to identify others at risk. National and regional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have included containment through quarantine and restriction of movement. When properly implemented, these solutions limit spread of the contagion to prevent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,74,25,12,73,71,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-contact-tracing","category-feature_articles","category-geospatial_topics","category-gps","category-gps-world","category-recent_articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}