Proving that there’s no situation in which thieves will not rear their greedy heads, agencies across the country are reporting that phone scammers are now pretending to be health department contact ...

Swamped by thousands of calls a day, contact tracing programs have been forced to adapt. Even though they can't call everyone, experts say it's... If you tested positive and the contact tracer never ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Contact tracers are in big demand as Harris County and the city of Houston struggle to identify people who may have been in close contact with someone who has COVID-19. As ...

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 ...

Yes, it's time-consuming. No, it's not hard. Yes, you'll learn something. I have a full-time job and no plans to leave it, but when Johns Hopkins launched an online course for contact tracers last ...

State officials and federal agencies warn there's a new phone scam circulating: Callers posing as COVID-19 contact tracers are trying to pry credit card or bank account information from unsuspecting ...

It’s not unusual for people to cry on the phone when they talk with contact tracers. Often, people vent to them about their fears, such as missing work because of a COVID-19 quarantine or infecting ...