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

Last week Apple and Google announced a group effort to introduce a single contact-tracing system that works with both iOS and Android. The development is the latest in an ongoing effort to stop ...

We are particularly concerned that the normalization of digital contact tracing would be a double blow for communities in the United States and abroad that have suffered longstanding human rights ...

The team behind the very first contact-tracing app that launched using Google and Apple's API, Switzerland's SwissCovid, has found early evidence that the technology could be as effective as ...

Contact tracing will be an essential discipline for helping states, countries, and businesses reopen as threats of COVID-19 infections decline. However, many people are confused about what ...

Hundreds of academics across the world have welcomed efforts to introduce privacy-friendly contact tracing systems to help understand the spread of coronavirus. A letter, signed by nearly 300 ...

When the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services launched COVID Trace, one of the nation’s first COVID-19 contact-tracing smartphone apps, on Aug. 24, state health authorities “strongly ...

There have been significant efforts on both fronts to improve capacity. And part of that effort has taken contact tracing into the digital age. Contact tracing is about identifying, informing and ...

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 ...

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 ...