For weeks, Canadians have been hearing public health officials talk about the importance of testing and tracing: Test to know who has COVID-19; trace to know who might be infected so you can test them ...

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 a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers reported that backward contact tracing is crucial to suppressing transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS ...

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.

RAISE AWARENESS. MATT: CONTACT TRACING IS WHEN YOU IDENTIFY SOMEONE WHO TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE CORONAVIRUS AND ASK THEM WHO’VE THEY HAD CLOSE CONTACT WITH AND REACH OUT TO THEM TO LET THEM KNOW THEY ...

The rise of the Delta variant is sparking all sorts of memories—the anxiety amid the first Covid wave in spring of 2020, the crushing winter surge, the unceasing debate about “nonpharmaceutical ...

Germany’s forthcoming contact tracing app will be markedly different to the app in development in the U.K. and the approach being considered for the U.S. Notably, most notably it will rely on tests, ...

Google, Apple and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week made headlines with announcements of contact tracing mobile apps in the wings. Their purpose is to identify contacts of people who ...

Bitter enemies teamed up to build tools they hoped would help slow the virus’s spread. If we’ve learned anything from covid-19, it’s the extent to which our lives are enmeshed with those of the people ...

"It’s going to be the summer of outbreak hunting." Many states are rolling back restrictions and masking guidance now that just over half of American adults are vaccinated against COVID-19. But public ...

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 ...