UC Irvine partners with health officials to teach community members how to conduct contact tracing in the neighborhoods where they live and work.

CHICAGO (CBS) --It's a common buzzword these days, and a hot new career: contact tracing. Mayor Lori Lightfoot just announced an effort to create 600 new jobs in poor Black and Latinx communities ...

The coronavirus is spreading so fast that cases are outpacing the contact-tracing capacities of some local health departments. Some have asked people who test positive to do their own contact tracing.

Why people don’t trust contact tracing apps, and what to do about it So far, exposure notification apps haven’t prevented covid-19 from spreading.

Contact tracing, a cornerstone of the public health arsenal to tamp down the coronavirus across the world, has largely failed in the United States; the virus’s pervasiveness and major lags in ...