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Contact-Tracing Apps Aren’t the Technology Panacea People Hoped
High hopes that technology would help supplement the traditional, labor-intensive approach to contact tracing have been dashed.
In France, less than 3% of the population has downloaded the contact-tracing app StopCovid.
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As Covid-19 spread, sending almost every country into some form of lockdown, governments began to wonder how best to keep track of the deadly virus. Contact-tracing apps seemed a sensible solution.