contact tracing

It has been eight months since the start of Massachusetts’ contact tracing program.

An Associated Press analysis finds that new smartphone technology for alerting people about possible exposure to the coronavirus has been slow to catch on

Maine’s top public health official says the state is considering scaling back investigations into cases of COVID-19 to focus on the most vulnerable populations, as some other states have already done.

Across the U.S., people from immigrant, refugee and Black communities are being hired to bridge the cultural divide in the United States and rebuild public confidence in America’s public health system

No one should have come in person last week to President Donald Trump’s fundraiser at his Bedminster golf club because of the risk of COVID-19 infection, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday. White House officials acknowledged last week they knew of the president’s exposure risk before he traveled to the Garden State for Thursday’s event but allowed it...

More people in Donald Trump’s inner circle have been testing positive for COVID-19.

Health experts in Massachusetts say a cluster of coronavirus cases in the White House will spark an intensive contact tracing investigation, enveloping a ring of the president’s staff, family members and associates. “It’s a substantial task,” Dr. Davidson Hamer, a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health and School of Medicine, said Friday, describing the tedious work...

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus, with the president being flown to Walter Reed Medical Center. Team coverage of how he became the face of a global pandemic.

After more than 70 Boston College students tested positive for coronavirus just last week, the Baker administration is stepping in to conduct contact tracing in the hopes of containing the outbreak. In the past month, 115 students have tested positive. About 3.5% of the students who were tested last week showed positive results, according to the college’s website, as 80…

Gov. Charlie Baker said he is reviewing the protocols for coronavirus testing and tracing on college campuses across Massachusetts and plans to “re-engage” with the schools following a recent outbreak at Boston College.

Nearly all college students are back on campus in Vermont and have been tested for coronavirus, officials said Friday, with a nominal number of positive cases. “The reopening has clearly been a success,” Gov. Phil Scott said in a press briefing. “We don’t expect to see any new big spikes on college campuses due to the reopening. Of course...

Only a handful of contact tracers working to slow COVID-19 in 125 communities near Chicago speak Spanish, despite significant Hispanic populations

Technical roadblocks are slowing the launch of contact-tracing apps stateside. Apple and Google rolled out an exposure notification tool in May to Android and iPhone, making it possible for app developers to use Bluetooth to track when devices come close to each other. But government agencies are facing challenges when it comes to creating the app itself.

Health experts are concerned that protests erupting across the nation and the law enforcement response to them will upend efforts to track and contain the spread of coronavirus just as those efforts were finally getting underway

A demo of a German coronavirus app was released on Friday which authorities hope will allow the country to safely reopen in time for summer tourism.

Scammers pretending to be coronavirus contact tracers are sending text messages to warn people they’ve been exposed to someone with COVID-19 and need to click a link to learn more.

Librarian Lisa Fagundes has spent many years happily surrounded by the fiction books she loves, at her job on the first floor of San Francisco’s Main Library. But now in pandemic times, Fagundes has been tapped for a job that sounds like it was plucked from one of those science fiction titles — she’s now an official “contact tracer.”

As countries around the world edge toward ending lockdowns and restarting their economies and societies, citizens are being more closely monitored

Effective contact tracing is key to mitigating the spread of the coronavirus, experts say. Here’s how it works.

In a COVID-19 update, Gov. Charlie Baker talks steps to re-opening and contact tracing program.