Covid Molecules

How Memory Makes it Harder to Fight COVID-19: Stream

This panel takes a closer look at how our memories make it harder for traditional contact tracers to find infected people quickly and obtain accurate information from them. In the COVID-19 pandemic, digital contact tracing—an unobtrusive, vigilant, and accurate recorder of danger—should outperform traditional contact tracing on every measure. But it probably has delivered on only a fraction of its potential. Why? Some of the answers are to be found in psychological science. There will be plenty of time for questions from the audience.

Covid Molecules

How Memory Makes it Harder to Fight COVID-19: Stream

This panel takes a closer look at how our memories make it harder for traditional contact tracers to find infected people quickly and obtain accurate information from them. In the COVID-19 pandemic, digital contact tracing—an unobtrusive, vigilant, and accurate recorder of danger—should outperform traditional contact tracing on every measure. But it probably has delivered on only a fraction of its potential. Why? Some of the answers are to be found in psychological science. There will be plenty of time for questions from the audience.