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Contact tracing is a critical tool for containing a disease outbreak. For COVID-19, it’s also a key part of plans like the World Health Organization’s guidelines for easing distancing restrictions. So ...

Thousands of Americans could soon join the ranks of disease detectives in one of the most important battles against coronavirus. Contact tracing has helped slow or stop previous epidemics, such as the ...

In the coronavirus era, a host of epidemiological terms have entered common public use. There’s the now-ubiquitous “social distancing,” and the newly politicized “flatten the curve.” And as states and ...

The University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute advised the NHS this week that “a contact-tracing app could help stop the coronavirus pandemic, but 80 percent of current smartphone owners would need to ...

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 ...

As U.S. states begin reopening, health experts are calling for massive investment in contact tracing — identifying and notifying people who have come into close contact with someone who has tested ...

This story is part of Science Friday’s coverage on the novel coronavirus, the agent of the disease COVID-19. Listen to experts discuss the spread, outbreak response, and treatment. While research ...

Digital contact tracing, if built in a voluntary, privacy-protective way using Apple and Google’s new Bluetooth-based standards, may allow the public to play a role in containing the coronavirus ...

Coronavirus has invaded what should be a fortress of safety – and it keeps spreading inside and outside the White House. “The White House has turned into the epicenter of what is clearly a major ...

Contact tracing is a method of controlling an infectious disease. It involves identifying people who may have come into contact with a person who is sick. Public health officials can then recommend ...

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 ...