At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, disease investigators in Douglas County had the time to contact people with positive cases of the virus and track their contacts. But as cases rose in the ...

Determining the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the majority of globally emergent pathogens, is a challenging task, despite large technical advances in genetic epidemiology. The methods based on ...

Contact tracing is a key strategy to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. But for a virus with high transmission rates and large numbers of asymptomatic carriers, traditional methods can fall short. That ...

New reports reveal that recent software through the state is causing issues with the contact tracing process. The Cedar Rapids Gazette reported this week that a software issued earlier this month is ...

While public contact tracing apps released by governments have attracted much (negative) attention, business contact tracing solutions play a different but hugely important role in slowing the spread ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, not many people had heard the term “contact tracing,” let alone knew how it related to the virus. Contact tracing helps slow the spread of the virus by alerting people to ...

ILLINOIS (KFVS) - The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is making changes to their COVID-19 contact tracing process as of Tuesday, December 29. According to the Southern Seven Health ...

New research shows that people prefer coronavirus contact tracing to be carried out by a combination of apps and humans. People prefer coronavirus contact tracing to be carried out by a combination of ...