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 ...

Fundamentally, contact tracing works by tracking down all the contacts of an infected person and then taking appropriate action to break the chain of transmission. In practice, that action will vary ...

As parts of the U.S. aim to move out of lockdown, a key tool to contain coronavirus cases will be contact tracing. It's something health workers... How Do You Do Contact Tracing? Poor Countries Have ...

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 ...

Despite a massive hiring push last year, health agencies around the U.S. failed to contain the pandemic through contact tracing. Health leaders... Why Contact Tracing Couldn't Keep Up With The U.S.

Marcel Salathé is an associate professor and head of the Digital Epidemiology Lab, School of Life Sciences, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

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 ...

If a Wake County librarian reaches out unexpectedly in the days and weeks to come, it’s probably going to be about something far more important than an overdue book. It could mean you’ve potentially ...

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.

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 ...

"Contacts are provided with education, information, and support to understand their risk, what they should do to separate themselves from others who are not exposed, monitor themselves for illness, ...