For parts of the country to reopen, health departments will need to be ready to stamp out any new outbreaks of the coronavirus immediately, and to do that, they will need legions of health workers ...

The CDC no longer recommends universal COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing, instead encouraging health departments to now prioritize those efforts for high-risk settings. The guidance, ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Data for contact tracing COVID-19 infections during air travel needs to improve at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with ...

(CNN) — The White House has declined offers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help investigate the outbreak surrounding President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis, according ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of public health measures aimed at controlling the transmission of communicable diseases. Air travel can play a role in quickly spreading ...

WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will take steps to improve collection of international air passenger contact information to better monitor ...

United Airlines will begin collecting contact information from passengers when they check in as part of an effort by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to better track spread of the ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - The Maine CDC will end contact tracing of COVID cases in less than a week. Director Dr. Nirav Shah reports as of Feb. 8, they will stop the program that was at one point a key ...

The Centers for Disease Control has released new guidelines for teachers and school administrators when it comes to reporting COVID-19 cases. Students, staff and teachers who are diagnosed with ...

United Airlines announced Wednesday that it is set to team up with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on a program designed to perform contact tracing among its customers. “Contact tracing ...

The U.S. launched COVID-19 contact tracing programs nationwide to slow the transmission of the virus, spending hundreds of millions of dollars. Yet the effort gave “suboptimal” results because only a ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread worldwide, and its airborne transmission makes it easy to infect a person even if there is a lack of symptoms. The Centers for ...