Simply put, contact tracing helps to stem the spread of contagious diseases like COVID-19, by health care workers reaching out to people who have tested positive and to those who might have come ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The state’s contact tracing efforts are overwhelmed by the growing number of COVID cases, according to Department of Health data and a DOH insider. A DOH spokesman ...

“Contact tracing is the wrong tool for the wrong job at the wrong time,” said Dr. David Lakey, the former state health commissioner of Texas who helped oversee the Ebola response in Dallas in ...

No One Wants to Pick Up the Phone for an Unfamiliar Number—and It’s Hurting Contact Tracing Now a technological solution is in the works. By Kasra Zarei. Nov 24, 2020 2:02 PM.

When the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services launched COVID Trace, one of the nation’s first COVID-19 contact-tracing smartphone apps, on Aug. 24, state health authorities “strongly ...

Case numbers have remained more or less static for several weeks, and the last confirmed covid-19 death was on April 19. Related Story India is forcing people to use its covid app, unlike any ...

This news comes as the world's number of coronavirus-linked deaths inches closer towards the 100,000 mark, currently at about 95,000. More than 1.5 million people have been infected.

The news: North Dakota was one of the first American states to launch a coronavirus contact tracing app, in April. Now, several weeks into the process of reopening the state, the government in ...