The contact tracing training and deployment program at University of Utah was recently awarded a $3.1 million contract from the Utah Department of Health (UDOH). This funding will extend the program ...

It's Saturday and Taya Westfield is hard at work at the Johnson County Public Health Department in Iowa City. Surrounded by a handful of co-workers, Westfield is taking calls, building rapport, and ...

Contact tracers help stop the spread of COVID-19 by tracking down anybody who comes into contact with somebody who tests positive for the disease. Tracers spend a lot of time on the phone with people ...

Early this summer, after the COVID-19 pandemic had already swept across the country and shut down college campuses and businesses around the world, Miami's public health program began to put together ...

1,500 people now working to trace contacts in Fla. FLORIDA — During a press conference on May 6 in Miami, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Scott Rivkees described the state’s contact tracing efforts. “This ...

San Diego county has contacted tracing program was envisioned as a pillar in the fight to stop the spread of COVID-19. The idea was to identify people who had been exposed to COVID-19 and notify them.

It’s not unusual for people to cry on the phone when they talk with contact tracers. Often, people vent to them about their fears, such as missing work because of a COVID-19 quarantine or infecting ...

With COVID-19 cases continuing to overwhelm hospitals, an Oregon nonprofit is helping counties up and down the West Coast do an essential job better: contact tracing. The Oregon Public Health ...

YOLO COUNTY (CBS13) -- CBS13 has learned of multiple people who have tested positive for Covid-19 and didn't receive calls or texts from contact tracers for weeks. This has begged two questions: Are ...

Here's one (more) sign the COVID-19 pandemic is on the decline in the United States. NPR's latest survey of state health departments with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security finds many are ...