With COVID-19 cases continuing to overwhelm hospitals, an Oregon nonprofit is helping counties up and down the West Coast do an essential job better: contact tracing. The Oregon Public Health ...

BUT, 5 INVESTIGATES HAS LEARNED HOW MASSACHUETTS TRACKS THE SPREAD OF THE VIRUS IS ABOUT TO UNDERGO A MAJOR CHANGE MARIA: OUR MIKE BEAUDET FOUND THE BURDEN IS ABOUT TO SHIFT ENTIRELY TO LOCAL ...

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.

Cat Dennison ’21 was among 169 Miami University students who conducted contact tracing interviews and disease investigations for the Butler County General Health District during the COVID-19 pandemic.

IOWA CITY — Johnson County Public Health has shifted its COVID-19 contact tracing efforts, focusing on notification over case investigation of individual infections within the county. As other local ...

The arrival of the omicron variant of the coronavirus in the U.S. has health officials in some communities reviving contact tracing operations in an attempt to slow and better understand its spread as ...

Contact tracing — the process by which the people who have had contact with an infected patient are identified — will be key during the next stage of the coronavirus pandemic, and organizations are ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP/Mass.gov) – Massachusetts is ending its program that tracks down people who were in close contact with someone who has COVID-19. The reason, a lack of state-funded workers to ...

Students and staff in Union County Public Schools no longer have to quarantine after possible exposure to COVID-19, unless they have symptoms or a positive coronavirus test. In a specially-called Zoom ...

When the coronavirus pandemic began, the health department in Teton County, Wyo., went all in on contact tracing. Everyone at the health department stopped their regular jobs to join the effort, and ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced Tuesday it would end its COVID-19 contact tracing program at the end of the month. Contact tracing staff will be reassigned to contact ...