CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Linn County Public Health is asking people living in the county to fill out a COVID-19 contact tracing form online. The new form, which is only for people living in Linn ...

An illustration from a brochure on contact tracing produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New York City has largely relied on social distancing measures to control the spread of ...

When the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services launched COVID Trace, one of the nation’s first COVID-19 contact-tracing smartphone apps, on Aug. 24, state health authorities “strongly ...

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 ...

Several European countries, including Switzerland and Germany, are demanding all user data generated by coronavirus contact tracing apps be stored on-device, rather than aggregated on a centralized ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover innovation within the green/blue industrial revolution. May 29, 2020, 10:16am EDT Jun 20, 2020, 01:56am EDT This article ...

One of the best tools we have to slow the spread of the coronavirus is, as you have no doubt heard by now, contact tracing. But what exactly is contact tracing, who does it and how, and do you need to ...

Contact tracing will be an essential discipline for helping states, countries, and businesses reopen as threats of COVID-19 infections decline. However, many people are confused about what contact ...

The ongoing pandemic is fertile ground for opportunistic hucksters, loud frauds, and coronavirus deniers who attack or blame everyone and everything from Chinese-Americans to Bill Gates to 5G networks ...

Jimmy Whitworth receives funding from the Wellcome Trust. He is affiliated with the World Health Organisation as a member of the scientific advisory committee for the Research and Development ...