A note on blind contact tracing at scale with applications to the COVID-19 pandemic
Jack Fitzsimons, Atul Mantri, Robert Pisarczyk, Tom Rainforth, Zhikuan Zhao · 2020
The current COVID-19 pandemic highlights the utility of contact tracing, when combined with case isolation and social distancing, as an important tool for mitigating the spread of a disease [1]. Contact tracing provides a mechanism of identifying individuals with a high likelihood of previous exposure to a contagious disease, allowing additional precautions to be put in place to prevent continued transmission.