Why Aren't COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps Working? While researchers have worked for months to develop COVID-19 vaccines
and treatments, contact-tracing apps like COVID Trace have been touted
as one of the technology world’s most promising contributions to the
fight against the pandemic. But seven months into the U.S. outbreak,
such apps have made slow progress across the country, hampered by
sluggish and uncoordinated development, distrust of technology
companies, and inadequate advertising budgets and messaging campaigns.
