Covid-19: Apple and Google won’t solve coronavirus contact tracing. Here’s what will

Dr Daniel Kombert, medical director for the Care Logistics Center and the director for the Clinical Command Center, middle, works with other medical professionals as they answer calls and track data at the Hartford HealthCare Covid-19 Command Center in Newington, Connecticut. All the attention on the Google-Apple platform has some public health professionals nervous. The job of contact tracing, they say, defies the notion of a sleek tech fix, requiring labour-intensive work by trained individuals. — Hartford Courant/TNS

LOS ANGELES: A middle-aged woman arrived at a tent set up by St. John’s Well Child and Family Center for coronavirus testing on April 13, her mother in tow. When both tested positive, clinic staff began to ask more questions.

Can you give us the names of people you have been in close contact with? We need to make sure your family and friends and co-workers are safe, staffers explained. It turned out the women shared their two-bedroom apartment in South Los Angeles with two other families – 14 household members total.