CHICAGO (WLS) -- Scientists leading the fight against the global pandemic say rapidly detecting and tracing COVID-19 infections is the only way to isolate infected people from those who are healthy or ...

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 ...

Maureen Calderon, a contact tracer for the L.A. County Department of Public Health, shown in 2021. (Madeleine Hordinski / Los Angeles Times) After Julianne Cline went out and got tested for COVID-19 ...

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 ...

More than two years after launching the COVID-19 contact trace force to help identify people potentially exposed to the coronavirus and slow the spread of disease, the District says it’s winding down ...

Even on their most accomplished days, Multnomah County COVID-19 tracers only contacted 80 percent of people who reported positive tests during the pandemic, according to a report by the Multnomah ...

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 ...

An Atlanta consulting firm that performed COVID-19 contact tracing for the Pennsylvania Department of Health is settling a federal investigation into its cybersecurity measures, which potentially ...

California will launch a COVID-19 exposure-notification system Thursday that uses smartphones to track interactions with infected people. The state “has partnered with Google and Apple to launch a ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers assessed the impact of a delay in tracing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case contacts on health outcomes of severe acute ...

The district says the program will provide regular COVID-19 testing and contact tracing for school staff, students and their families. Monday, August 17, 2020 LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Los Angeles ...

After Julianne Cline went out and got tested for COVID-19 this June, text messages and voicemails soon piled up from Los Angeles County contact tracers who wanted to talk to her. Cline, 32, ignored ...