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.

Contact tracing for COVID-19 is a necessary tool to allow communities to reopen. Unfortunately, because of the speed and numbers of COVID-19 cases, manual contact tracing is unlikely to be sufficient.

Digital contact tracing apps combined with contact tracers are two parts of a multi-faceted effort that will help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Reducing the spread of infection, informing others of ...

Contact tracing can help stem the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. It involves tracking the movement and interactions of infected individuals to identify others at risk. National and regional ...

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 ...

Lifting the coronavirus shutdown in the Cincinnati region, states and the nation largely rests on counties and cities performing an unsung but vital task of public health, contact tracing. Here are ...

Amy Lauren Fairchild has received funding from NIH and NSF. Ronald Bayer has received funding from NIH and NSF. Lawrence O. Gostin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

When the coronavirus pandemic began, the health department in Teton County, Wyo., went all in on contact tracing. Everyone at the health department stopped their regular jobs to join the effort, and ...

In Texas, where gyms and offices this week joined the list of businesses that can reopen at limited capacity, only half of the 4,000 contact tracers needed by the state have been hired so far. In ...