WXMI — As the novel coronavirus morphs and the nature of fighting the illness changes, so too does the nature of contact tracing for exposure. Almost two-years into the pandemic, and local and state ...

Handwritten notes fill the whiteboards around the office of Theresa Covell, who is one of three part-time public health nurses working on COVID-19 contact tracing for Barnstable County. BARNSTABLE — ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the coronavirus pandemic began, the health department in Teton County, Wyo., went all in on contact tracing. Everyone at the health department stopped their regular jobs to join the effort, and ...

AUSTIN, Texas – 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 ...

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 ...

A recent meningitis outbreak in Canterbury, UK, has put the spotlight back on one of public health's most critical tools, contact tracing. The cluster, linked to a university setting and social venues ...