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.

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio Department of Health is no longer asking K-12 schools and local health departments to contact trace after each positive coronavirus case at school, instead outlining a new ...

BARNSTABLE — As the Massachusetts Community Tracing Collaborative winds down, Barnstable County public health nurses are taking a bigger role in tracing COVID-19 cases and close contacts on Cape Cod.

Chester County health officials are shifting priorities after COVID-19 incidence and percent positivity rates more than doubled over the past four weeks. The county said it will focus more efforts on ...

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 ...

Contact tracing programs were deployed around the globe to slow the spread of COVID-19, but these programs could not prevent the multiple waves of transmission and loss of life that have occurred ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity hosted a public webinar titled Doing It Right: Contact Tracing and Health Equity on July 30 ...