When the coronavirus pandemic began, the health department in Teton County, Wyo., went all in on contact tracing. Everyone at the health department stopped their regular jobs to join the effort, and ...

Proving that there’s no situation in which thieves will not rear their greedy heads, agencies across the country are reporting that phone scammers are now pretending to be health department contact ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alejandra Perez-Handler had a 2-month-old baby and desperately needed at-home work, so she took a job as a contact tracer in ...

Nita is a Santa Monica resident who received an unsettling phone call last week — the caller said that someone diagnosed with COVID-19 had identified her as someone the person had close contact with ...

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.

Swamped by thousands of calls a day, contact tracing programs have been forced to adapt. Even though they can't call everyone, experts say it's... If you tested positive and the contact tracer never ...

Contact tracing programs around the country have been struggling to keep up with demand during the last several coronavirus surges. Here, contact tracer Cherie Hunter works from her home in Tinley ...