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 ...

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.

California will launch a COVID-19 exposure-notification system Thursday that uses smartphones to track interactions with infected people. The state “has partnered with Google and Apple to launch a ...

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 ...

COLORADO, USA — More than 3,000 people have gotten at least one shot of the monkeypox vaccine in Colorado, and for the past several days, providers have been giving more than 100 doses a day. Colorado ...

YOLO COUNTY (CBS13) -- CBS13 has learned of multiple people who have tested positive for Covid-19 and didn't receive calls or texts from contact tracers for weeks. This has begged two questions: Are ...

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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 ...

The state of Kansas will soon end its coronavirus contact tracing program, calling the step a move toward managing the coronavirus as an endemic. Kansas Department of Health and Environment Acting ...

White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients said on Wednesday the United States is developing a "new system for international travel" that will include new strong mitigation procedures ...