Contact Tracing Using Less Than 30 Lines of Python Code

How can machine learning help in pandemics?

Sara A. Metwalli
Towards Data Science
7 min readAug 28, 2020

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Contact tracing is the name of the process used to identify those who come into contact with people who have tested positive for contagious diseases — such as measles, HIV, and COVID-19. During a pandemic, performing contact tracing correctly can help reduce the number of people to get infected or…

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