The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced this week that it no longer recommends universal case investigation and contact tracing. In its place, the agency said state, tribal, ...

NYC Test & Trace Corps, the city's initiative for Covid testing and contact tracing, will end universal contact tracing—where every positive case is called up—by the end of April. The decision to end ...

In hopes of slowing down the spread of the coronavirus, health departments across the country have turned to contact tracing. Finding those who have been exposed to COVID-19 and monitoring their ...

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.

As a tool for controlling the spread of COVID-19, mobile applications for contact tracing are most effective when they are widely adopted and left on indefinitely. But adoption rates of such apps are ...

North Carolina provides county- and ZIP code-level data on new coronavirus cases, but public health experts say that isn't enough to know where and how the virus is really spreading in different ...