Technology companies can help fight Covid-19

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'What makes this time unique is that we have, at our fingertips, a wealth of information, data and insights that would have been unimaginable in pandemics of the past,' Drs. Farzad Mostashari and Tom Frieden write for CNNOpinion

Dr. Farzad Mostashari is co-founder and CEO of Aledade. He is former National Coordinator for Health IT at the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is currently president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a global non-profit initiative that is part of the global public health organization Vital Strategies. The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the authors.

One of our most important public health activities moving forward will be contact tracing. Apple, Google and Microsoft can contribute by helping public health workers do their job more effectively. Partnerships between our public health experts and our nation's leading technologists can be transformational in ways that will continue improving our health long after Covid-19 is no longer the emergency it is today.

 

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