Stefan Mileschin

Apparently it was not the cause after all

While very stupid people in the UK and US think 5G is responsible for the coronavirus, the technology could be the key to actually fighting it.

Routinely collected mobile phone-location data could be used to alert health official about crowded areas where novel coronavirus could spread rapidly, which they could then use to disperse people in order to lower the risk, according to researchers at Colorado State University.

Mobile phones maintain connections as their users move around by continually handing off from one cell tower to another. Analyzing logs of these handoffs is a way to gauge how many people are in an area, the researchers say, and that information could flag potential virus-spreading hotspots. “Crowded regions with actively moving people are susceptible to spreading the disease”, the team says in an abstract of its paper in IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology.

Edwin Chong, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and interim department head at the school in an article on the university’s website that his findings could help risk managers with planning and mitigation.

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