One of the best tools we have to slow the spread of the coronavirus is, as you have no doubt heard by now, contact tracing. But what exactly is contact tracing, who does it and how, and do you need to ...
Public health nurse Lee Cherie Booth conducts a test for COVID-19 outside of the Salt Lake City Public Health Center on April 10, 2020, accompanied by Salt Lake County infectious disease nurse Travis ...
Contact tracing for COVID-19 is a necessary tool to allow communities to reopen. Unfortunately, because of the speed and numbers of COVID-19 cases, manual contact tracing is unlikely to be sufficient.
In the face of the global pandemic, a key first step in returning to normalcy involves contact tracing: identifying who has COVID-19, who has been exposed to the novel coronavirus, and who is immune ...
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 ...
Contact tracing is a method of controlling an infectious disease. It involves identifying people who may have come into contact with a person who is sick. Public health officials can then recommend ...