And as states and local governments seek a way out of lockdowns that have brought their economies to a near-standstill, “contact tracing” has made its way into everyday conversation as well.

Contact tracing is a critical tool for containing a disease outbreak. For COVID-19, it’s also a key part of plans like the World Health Organization’s guidelines for easing distancing ...

Contact tracing has helped slow or stop previous outbreaks, like SARS and Ebola. But it’s never been more critical – or more challenging – than in this fight against coronavirus.

Contact tracing may look different from the pandemic's start, but it's still useful NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lorna Thorpe, director of epidemiology at New York University Grossman School of ...

Contact tracing and testing are crucial to squelching coronavirus until there’s a widely distributed vaccine or therapeutic drug, said Steve Waters, founder of Contrace Public Health Corps ...

Robust contact tracing is one of the reasons why Germany, South Korea, and China have so far fared better than the U.S. in the Covid-19 pandemic. advertisement.

The New York Times, too, is pushing contact-tracing, with an editorial calling for “a legion of health workers, disease detectives,” in Gotham to find those “who may have been exposed and ...

The class, which rolled out Monday, offers online instruction to anyone who wants to learn the basics of contact tracing: the process of identifying and isolating people who have been infected ...

Google and Apple announced on April 10 that they will work together on creating a contact tracing platform for public health departments. The companies are planning a two-phase rollout.

And whenever a new infectious disease emerges, contact tracing is public health’s most powerful weapon for tracking transmission and figuring out how best to protect the population. But now ...

What is contact tracing, and how does it work with COVID-19? The goal of contact tracing is to alert people who may have been exposed to someone with the coronavirus, and prevent them from ...

And in New York City’s tracing program, workers complained of crippling communication and training problems. Contact tracing, a cornerstone of the public health arsenal to tamp down the ...