Next up on the “how to get life back to normal” checklist: contact tracing. But it’s not going to be easy. Experts already say states need to wait until coronavirus cases actually start to ...

Contact tracing may look different from the pandemic's start, but it's still useful NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lorna Thorpe, director of epidemiology at New York University Grossman School of ...

When Google and Apple announced last week that the two companies are building changes into Android and iOS to enable Bluetooth-based Covid-19 contact tracing, they touched off an immediate ...

And whenever a new infectious disease emerges, contact tracing is public health’s most powerful weapon for tracking transmission and figuring out how best to protect the population. But now ...

The class, which rolled out Monday, offers online instruction to anyone who wants to learn the basics of contact tracing: the process of identifying and isolating people who have been infected ...

Health officials use a method called contact tracing to find out who infected patients may have met. After a person who tests positive tells the health department with whom they've been in contact ...

The tech giants said they would employ Bluetooth to create "contact tracing technology" tools to alert users if they have come in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 ...

CDC Director Robert Redfield told NPR that the country needs to implement “very aggressive” contact tracing of those who test positive for the virus. So what is contact tracing and how does is ...