(TNS) — Before the COVID-19 pandemic, not many people had heard the term "contact tracing," let alone knew how it related to the virus. Contact tracing helps slow the spread of the virus by alerting ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, not many people had heard the term “contact tracing,” let alone knew how it related to the virus. Contact tracing helps slow the spread of the virus by alerting people to ...

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As Cindy Delgado read about contact tracing and how it would be the key to slowing the spread of COVID–19 cases, she knew it was something she wanted to do to help. Delgado, the assistant director of ...

Imagine you begin to feel ill on Thursday, a few days after returning from a trip. You’re afraid it’s COVID-19, so you get tested on Friday. Even under good circumstances, it will probably be at least ...

Contact tracing is a key strategy to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. But for a virus with high transmission rates and large numbers of asymptomatic carriers, traditional methods can fall short. That ...

(WSIL) -- Southern Seven Health Department (S7HD) wants residents to be aware of new changes to the COVID-19 Contact Tracing process that the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) launched. All ...

As coronavirus cases reach new peaks, surpassing 200,000 cases a day in the United States, public health departments are overwhelmed. Departments are racing to hire yet more contact tracers and some ...

Jacqueline R. Evans, Florida International University; Christian Meissner, Iowa State University; Deborah Goldfarb, Florida International University, and Ian Jason Lee, Florida International ...