The COVID-19 crisis has created an unprecedented need for contact tracing across the country, requiring thousands of people to learn key skills quickly. The job qualifications for contact tracing ...

As part of global efforts to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, health officials have tried a variety of contact-tracing strategies in countries around the world. Some have been success stories; ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers reported that backward contact tracing is crucial to suppressing transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS ...

Covid-19 has turned our lives upside down. But it has also been a catalyst for plenty of new technology, and it made apps even more popular than they were pre-pandemic. Among the most controversial ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's one of the greatest hopes for stopping the spread of coronavirus: contact tracing. Health workers across the state are calling people who were exposed to the virus - and ...

It’s summer 2021. You rent a house in the countryside with a bunch of friends for someone’s birthday. The weather’s gorgeous that weekend, so mostly you’re all outside—pool, firepit, hammock, etc.—but ...

Intensive contact tracing has helped contain COVID-19 outbreaks in some Asian countries. People test positive, they quarantine, and the folks they’ve had contact with are tracked down and asked to — ...

Lorna Kiplagat at work for the state's contact tracing program on her laptop at her home. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Massachusetts is ending its program that tracks down people who were in close contact with ...

The state once had 4,400 people involved in calling those who test positive, but it leaves to patients the task of reaching out to their contacts. Gov. Ron DeSantis, appearing in March at Palm Harbor ...

RICHMOND, Va. - The Virginia Department of Health is phasing out contact tracing. The agency announced it is changing from attempting to investigate every case of COVID-19 and trace all contacts to ...

The state of Kansas will soon end its coronavirus contact tracing program, calling the step a move toward managing the coronavirus as an endemic. Kansas Department of Health and Environment Acting ...