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.

The United States has more than 50,000 contact tracers for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic hit, according to a survey of states conducted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security ...

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 ...

The world is in a rush to find ways to fight Covid-19. This urgency makes sense for a pandemic that has killed more than a half-million people since it began in late December. But if the quality of ...

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 ...

Matt Katz couldn’t be easier to find. He’s a journalist living in Philadelphia, and picks up the phone when strange numbers call. He’d given all his contact information to the company that tested him ...

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 ...

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 ...

Contact tracing will be an essential discipline for helping states, countries, and businesses reopen as threats of COVID-19 infections decline. However, many people are confused about what contact ...

"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 ...

With her thin eyebrows arched high on her forehead, Robyn Openshaw urged her 212,000 fans to stand up to a new menace: contact tracing. Openshaw, a widely followed health blogger who goes by “Green ...

It was supposed to have both prevented the worst ravages of the pandemic and given people in lockdown something to do. An army of contact tracers working the phones would find people exposed to the ...