The idea behind digital contact tracing is that, when an individual tests positive for an infectious disease such as COVID-19, an app on their smartphone can send a notification to other smartphones ...

Bitter enemies teamed up to build tools they hoped would help slow the virus’s spread. If we’ve learned anything from covid-19, it’s the extent to which our lives are enmeshed with those of the people ...

(TNS) — The digital contact tracing effort in Virginia is 2 million phones strong. Roughly a quarter of the adult population has downloaded the state’s COVIDWISE app or opted in on their iPhones to ...

Outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) emerged in the United States and in European countries in February 2020. Urgent action was called for, since experts estimated that 30 to 70% of people ...

The Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to surge across the United States as new cases have jumped by 185 percent over the past two weeks and the daily caseload stands at over 760,000. National ...

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.