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 ...

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.

CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Contact tracing has been around for nearly a century. However for many people it seems like it has been a new word since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Back in the ...

In this Aug. 6. 2020, file photo, Joseph Ortiz, a contact tracer with New York City's Health + Hospitals battling the coronavirus pandemic, disinfects his tablet after leaving a potential patient's ...

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 ...

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 ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — Contact tracing responsibility in Illinois is shifting from local health departments to the Illinois Department of Public Health, as counties are struggling to keep up with rising ...