The COVID-19 crisis has created an unprecedented need for contact tracing across the country, requiring thousands of people to learn key skills quickly. The job qualifications for contact tracing ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's one of the greatest hopes for stopping the spread of coronavirus: contact tracing. Health workers across the state are calling people who were exposed to the virus - and ...

Yes, it's time-consuming. No, it's not hard. Yes, you'll learn something. I have a full-time job and no plans to leave it, but when Johns Hopkins launched an online course for contact tracers last ...

Los Angeles city and county are partnering with the Citizen mobile app to provide new methods for faster coronavirus contact tracing and notifications about possible exposure. LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- ...

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 ...

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 ...

Health experts say contact tracing is an essential piece to stopping the spread of the coronavirus. But four months after cases of COVID-19 began to rise in the Kansas City metro area, public health ...

As part of global efforts to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, health officials have tried a variety of contact-tracing strategies in countries around the world. Some have been success stories; ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Scientists leading the fight against the global pandemic say rapidly detecting and tracing COVID-19 infections is the only way to isolate infected people from those who are healthy or ...

Intensive contact tracing has helped contain COVID-19 outbreaks in some Asian countries. People test positive, they quarantine, and the folks they’ve had contact with are tracked down and asked to — ...