A team of FIU researchers hope a do-it-yourself contact tracing tool they created last year will help disrupt the surge of new COVID-19 cases and the highly transmissible Delta variant. Contact ...

Human-driven phone-based contact tracing is the backbone of states’ contact tracing programs. Success of these programs depends on reaching infected cases—and their recent close contacts—as quickly as ...

While contact tracing can be performed manually, there are a number of worker-safety apps available that will save you time and money. Chances are very high that your working situation has changed in ...

NYC Test & Trace Corps, the city's initiative for Covid testing and contact tracing, will end universal contact tracing—where every positive case is called up—by the end of April. The decision to end ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Coronavirus contact tracing programs across the U.S. scaled back their ambitions as cases surged in winter, but New York City has leaned into its $600 million tracing initiative. 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.

Video & Podcast: A conversation with experts on how US states can implement retrospective contact tracing Currently, almost every US state relies on prospective contact tracing: when an infected ...

When a Yale student tests positive for COVID-19, one of the calls they can expect to receive is from the Yale Contact Tracing Team, but students have reported disparities with regard to when — and if ...

Contact-tracing efforts in the U.S. have been stunted by delayed testing results and major outbreaks beyond the scope of what the existing number of tracers can handle, experts said. U.S. contact ...

The White House says it's conducting its own "robust contact tracing program." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mobilized a large team of experts to Washington to trace the explosion of ...

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 ...