For COVID-19 contact tracers in the Inland Empire, the work has only increased a year and a half into the coronavirus pandemic. Going down a list of names, tracers make dozens of calls to the parents ...

A key part of the United States' coronavirus containment strategy is an epidemiological tool called contact tracing: Find sick people, isolate them and then trace everyone with whom they've been in ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — As COVID-19 cases climb in local schools, Palm Beach County's top health official on Tuesday said the process of contact tracing and quarantining students is "working really ...

As public health officials begin to roll out COVID-19 contact-tracing programs to help slow the spread of the virus, scammers are finding ways to use these efforts for their personal gain, according ...

When Covid-19 cases cropped up in her schools last year, Montpelier-Roxbury Superintendent Libby Bonesteel said she had cellphone numbers for multiple people she could call at the Department of Health ...

Cat Dennison ’21 was among 169 Miami University students who conducted contact tracing interviews and disease investigations for the Butler County General Health District during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the spring of 2020, Graham Grieve was teaching English in Italy on a Fulbright Scholarship. The country was one of the first to face significant outbreaks of COVID-19, and Grieve was one of the ...

The MI COVID Alert app is supposed to warn you if you’ve been near an infected person. My phone has been suspiciously silent. Credit: Lee DeVito About a year ago, Michigan got a new weapon in its ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Contact tracing teams are working with the New Yorkers who have tested positive for the COVID Omicron variant in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. Thursday, de Blasio ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lorna Thorpe, director of epidemiology at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, on the benefits and disadvantages of contact tracing at this pandemic phase.

France’s health minister Olivier Véran and digital minister Cédric O have officially announced that the French government is working on a smartphone app to slow the spread of COVID-19. The government ...

It was supposed to have both prevented the worst ravages of the pandemic and given people in lockdown something to do. An army of contact tracers working the phones would find people exposed to the ...