News Medical

Adaptation and utilization of digital contact tracing applications in the post-pandemic period

During the pandemic, contact tracing apps kept Americans informed of potential exposure risk with the goal of reducing infections. But did apps like this help reduce the spread of COVID and how might ...
WFTV

States ramp up contact tracing efforts as delta and omicron cases rise

WASHINGTON D.C. — As more states report cases of the omicron variant, the World Health Organization says contact tracing will be key to containing it. States have been contact tracing since the ...
NPR

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 Medicine, on the benefits and disadvantages of contact tracing at this pandemic phase.
Orange County Register

California throws more money at COVID-19 contact tracing, but is it too late?

Intensive contact tracing has helped contain COVID-19 outbreaks in some Asian countries. People test positive, they quarantine, and the folks they’ve had contact with are tracked down and asked to — ...
Crain's New York

Here's how Test & Trace will wind down contact tracing

NYC Test & Trace Corps, the city's initiative for Covid testing and contact tracing, will end universal contact tracing—where every positive case is called up—by the end of April. The decision to end ...
NPR

If you tested positive and the contact tracer never called, here's why

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 ...