When the call came from the local health department in northeast Nebraska, Katie Berger was waiting. She had already gotten a text from the salon where she'd gotten her hair done recently, telling her ...

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 ...

For COVID-19 contact tracers in the Inland Empire, the work has only increased a year and a half into the coronavirus pandemic. Going down a list of names, tracers make dozens of calls to the parents ...

Electron microscope image of the virus that causes COVID-19. Photo: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Apple and Google revealed Friday that they’re teaming up to take on one of the ...

Tracing the contacts of those who have Covid-19 is an important element of stopping its spread and making it safer to re-open our society and economy. Manual tracing is hard and error-prone, so the ...

Contact tracing programs around the country have been struggling to keep up with demand during the last several coronavirus surges. Here, contact tracer Cherie Hunter works from her home in Tinley ...

Alejandra Perez-Handler had a 2-month-old baby and desperately needed at-home work, so she took a job as a contact tracer in Connecticut. From October through November, she made about 20 calls a day ...

Three days after President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were diagnosed with coronavirus, there is little clarity about how the White House is contact tracing and alerting those who may ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Since the summer of 2020, a team of contact tracers in Marion County has worked to identify COVID clusters. “It is hard to keep up. I don’t think any contact tracing team in the country ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - In Outagamie County, where they don’t currently have any measles cases, health officials said they trace by working with the healthcare provider who’s doing the testing on the ...

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 coronavirus.

It's a technique widely used in other countries to slow the spread of infection. Here's how contact tracing works — and how it can help the U.S.... When the call came from the local health department ...