As we enter the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, attention is turning to contact tracing. States and cities are gearing up to hire thousands of people to help identify and notify those who may ...

As we slowly emerge from COVID-19 shutdowns, consumers will need confidence to venture out and reengage in commerce. Policymakers will also be eager to ensure that if the virus does resurge, they can ...

Our public health authorities have made clear that to keep COVID-19 infection levels down, we must strengthen our ability to identify, test, and isolate individuals who have been exposed to the virus.

Beth Daly, the chief of the state Bureau of Infectious Disease Control, explains how the state's contact-tracing program has morphed over time, and what officials have learned about risk factors for ...

When Ebola ripped through communities in West Africa between 2014 and 2016, Tolbert Nyenswah saw at first hand how health workers extinguished the epidemic by finding and quarantining contacts of ...

After seven weeks of lockdown and more than 30,000 deaths, the first phase of the UK’s coronavirus outbreak is slowly drawing to a close. On Sunday April 10, prime minister Boris Johnson is expected ...