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 ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lorna Thorpe, director of epidemiology at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, on the benefits and disadvantages of contact tracing at this pandemic phase.
While contact tracing can be performed manually, there are a number of worker-safety apps available that will save you time and money. Chances are very high that your working situation has changed in ...
In this Aug. 6. 2020, file photo, Joseph Ortiz, a contact tracer with New York City's Health + Hospitals battling the coronavirus pandemic, disinfects his tablet after leaving a potential patient's ...
A team of FIU researchers hope a do-it-yourself contact tracing tool they created last year will help disrupt the surge of new COVID-19 cases and the highly transmissible Delta variant. Contact ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — School districts in Ohio will no longer be required to perform universal contact tracing in schools, according to new guidance by the state’s health department. In a memo sent to ...
BROCKTON POLICE SAY. 40-YEAR-OLD CARLA GOMEZ DAROSA PARTICIPATED IN A CRIME SPREE HITTING SEVERAL COMMUNITIES INTO LATE LAST YEAR. INVESTIGATORS SAY SHE KNOCKED ON VICTIMS’ DOORS PRETENDING TO BE THE ...
A COVID-19 patient's iPhone receives its daily contract tracing message from the city of New York on November 19, 2020, in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas Department of Health and Environment will stop contact tracing starting Feb. 1. Contact tracing is a way to monitor the spread of COVID-19 by tracking cases and where ...