You might have never heard the phrase "contact tracing" until recently. Now it's a part of the daily conversation about the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Robert Redfield, the head of the U.S. Centers for ...

Mar. 16—PLATTSBURGH — Molly Flynn wears the mask of contract tracer as well as senior public health educator at the Clinton County Health Department. Below, Flynn answers 10 questions about the ...

Reuters) – Contact tracing has been used for decades to control the spread of infectious diseases. The basic idea is simple: track down infected people, then find everyone who has been near them and ...

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 ...

What is contact tracing, and how does it work with COVID-19? The goal of contact tracing is to alert people who may have been exposed to someone with the coronavirus, and prevent them from spreading ...

Contact tracing isn't new or particularly complicated, but it is labor intensive. The general idea is to interview anyone who is confirmed positive for COVID-19 and identify people they were in ...

A key part of the United States' coronavirus containment strategy is an epidemiological tool called contact tracing: Find sick people, isolate them and then trace everyone with whom they've been in ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A security flaw in Qatar’s contact tracing app put the personal information of more than one million people at risk. Switzerland is piloting a COVID-19 contact tracing app that uses the Apple-Google ...