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Maria Carnovale’s Biography

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Writer and editor at the Institute for Technology and Global Health. Easier to find at carnovalemaria at outlook dot com.

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Online Platforms and Mental Health: A Policy Proposal

Online Platforms and Mental Health: A Policy Proposal

In recent years, there has been growing concern regarding the unintended mental health impact of online platf…

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Public Health, Technology, and Human Rights: Lessons Learned from Digital Contact Tracing

Public Health, Technology, and Human Rights: Lessons Learned from Digital Contact Tracing

To mitigate inefficiencies in manual contact tracing processes, Digital contact tracing and exposure notifica…

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The Pandemic's Hidden Victims

The Pandemic's Hidden Victims

If we told you that marathons lead to spikes in deaths from heart attacks, you might picture exhausted weeken…

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Can Vaccine Passports Actually Work?

Can Vaccine Passports Actually Work?

This article is part of Privacy in the Pandemic , a Future Tense series. This summer, Martina and James are g…

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Why Did Digital Contact Tracing for COVID Fail So Completely?

Why Did Digital Contact Tracing for COVID Fail So Completely?

In the summer of 2020, when most countries were cherishing the quiet before the second peak in COVID-19 cases…

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What Happened to Digital Contact Tracing's Summer of Potential?

What Happened to Digital Contact Tracing's Summer of Potential?

In the summer of 2020, when most countries were cherishing the quiet before the second peak in COVID-19 cases…

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Will vaccine passports ever really take off?

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By Maria Carnovale
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Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images This article is part of Privacy in the Pandemic, a Future Tense series. This summer, Martina and James are getting married. The invitations have been sent to family and friends, but only those with a Green Pass—the digital vaccine passport system that recently became active in Italy—are allowed to join the festivities in a picturesque town on the coast of the Ligurian Sea. No exceptions, not even for the bride and the groom.
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Why did digital contact tracing for COVID fail so completely?

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By Maria Carnovale
| Slate Verified
An up-close look at the challenges of harnessing digital data for public health. The U.K. government’s test and trace application was unveiled in September 2020. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images This article originally appeared in Zócalo Public Square. In the summer of 2020, when most countries were cherishing the quiet before the second peak in COVID-19 cases, the nonprofit I was volunteering at was bustling with activity.
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Contact Tracing Apps Need Improvement

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By Tom Burroughs, Maurizio Arseni, Maria Carnovale, Augusto Gesualdi
| Issues in Science and Technology Verified
November 19, 2020 Millions of Americans can use their smartphones to learn when they have been near someone infected with the novel coronavirus, alerting them to get tested and quarantine themselves. But not many people are using the exposure app, the Washington Post reports, going on to explain how residents in the dozen-plus states that offer the app can activate it.
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