For COVID-19 contact tracers in the Inland Empire, the work has only increased a year and a half into the coronavirus pandemic. Going down a list of names, tracers make dozens of calls to the parents ...

In the spring of 2020, Graham Grieve was teaching English in Italy on a Fulbright Scholarship. The country was one of the first to face significant outbreaks of COVID-19, and Grieve was one of the ...

Health departments nationwide scaled back their contact tracing in late spring or early summer when COVID-19 cases started to decrease as vaccination efforts took center stage. Then delta hit. Now ...

When Covid-19 cases cropped up in her schools last year, Montpelier-Roxbury Superintendent Libby Bonesteel said she had cellphone numbers for multiple people she could call at the Department of Health ...

A key part of the United States' coronavirus containment strategy is an epidemiological tool called contact tracing: Find sick people, isolate them and then trace everyone with whom they've been in ...

Just a few months ago, officials and experts were optimistic that Colorado would have turned a corner in the fight against COVID-19 by now. But stalled vaccination rates and the rise of the Delta ...

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.

Health departments nationwide scaled back their contact tracing in late spring or early summer when covid-19 cases started to decrease as vaccination efforts took center stage. Then delta hit. Now ...