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Vazquez Guillamet and colleagues develop bluetooth tool for health care worker COVID-19 contact tracing

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A Bluetooth low-energy-based contact-tracing system accurately identified potential COVID-19 contacts among health care workers, along with additional data on where and when the contact happened. Image: Adobe Stock.
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Based on these findings, Vazquez Guillamet and colleagues wrote that BLE-based contact tracing “presents an affordable and scalable system that may function as a screening tool to complement traditional contact-tracing methods.”