Prashant Shenoy, UMass Amherst (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Prashant Shenoy, UMass Amherst

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UMass Amherst's Prashant Shenoy notes that contact tracing has mostly been done with manual methods and interviews. Now, he and his team offer health professionals an added source of information, from WiFi logs. Those who are ill must give permission to search those logs to trace their recent contacts.

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