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 ...

What is contact tracing, and how does it work with COVID-19? The goal of contact tracing is to alert people who may have been exposed to someone with the coronavirus, and prevent them from spreading ...

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 ...

As Cindy Delgado read about contact tracing and how it would be the key to slowing the spread of COVID–19 cases, she knew it was something she wanted to do to help. Delgado, the assistant director of ...

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 ...

After three people died on a cruise ship struck by a hantavirus, authorities are actively tracking down 29 people who had left the ship. They’re trying to trace the spread of the virus. It’s a long, ...