Testing and tracing to reopen. What are they and where do we stand?

Published May 6, 2020 This content is archived.

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WHEC in Rochester interviewed Chunming Qiao, SUNY Distinguished Professor and chair of Computer Science and Engineering, about an app he’s the leading the development of to help with contact tracing for COVID-19.  

"The app uses Blue Tooth technology to automatically detect other smartphones nearby and therefore can record that contact information in a database," he said.

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