Thousands of Americans could soon join the ranks of disease detectives in one of the most important battles against coronavirus. Contact tracing has helped slow or stop previous epidemics, such as the ...

Fundamentally, contact tracing works by tracking down all the contacts of an infected person and then taking appropriate action to break the chain of transmission. In practice, that action will vary ...

As parts of the U.S. aim to move out of lockdown, a key tool to contain coronavirus cases will be contact tracing. It's something health workers... How Do You Do Contact Tracing? Poor Countries Have ...

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 ...

Despite a massive hiring push last year, health agencies around the U.S. failed to contain the pandemic through contact tracing. Health leaders... Why Contact Tracing Couldn't Keep Up With The U.S.

Marcel Salathé is an associate professor and head of the Digital Epidemiology Lab, School of Life Sciences, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

If a Wake County librarian reaches out unexpectedly in the days and weeks to come, it’s probably going to be about something far more important than an overdue book. It could mean you’ve potentially ...

Beleaguered state and local coronavirus contact tracing programs are about to get billions of dollars in aid from Congress. But that likely won’t be enough to overcome the latest surge of cases, ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - In Outagamie County, where they don’t currently have any measles cases, health officials said they trace by working with the healthcare provider who’s doing the testing on the ...

"Contacts are provided with education, information, and support to understand their risk, what they should do to separate themselves from others who are not exposed, monitor themselves for illness, ...

The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Redfield, says contact tracing will be vital in the next phase of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. Poor countries ...