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 ...

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.

Google and Apple announced Friday a joint effort to help with COVID-19 contact tracing. Jennifer Horney, PhD, MPH, explains exactly how it works. Contact tracing is a way for epidemiologists to ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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"It’s going to be the summer of outbreak hunting." Many states are rolling back restrictions and masking guidance now that just over half of American adults are vaccinated against COVID-19. But public ...

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 ...

The Hyde Park Central School District is making changes to its contact tracing protocols that could result in more days in which all of its students are remote learning. The district says the change ...

Like many companies, PwC has delayed its reopening until the fall. But a contact tracing app is one part of their return-to-office plan. Contact tracing apps have a major design flaw A tech solution ...