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, ...

For parts of the country to reopen, health departments will need to be ready to stamp out any new outbreaks of the coronavirus immediately, and to do that, they will need legions of health workers ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Contact tracing has been an important part of the fight against COVID-19. But health departments and businesses don’t always have enough people to do the tracing work. So a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of public health measures aimed at controlling the transmission of communicable diseases. Air travel can play a role in quickly spreading ...

The U.S. launched COVID-19 contact tracing programs nationwide to slow the transmission of the virus, spending hundreds of millions of dollars. Yet the effort gave “suboptimal” results because only a ...

TAMPA, Fla., July 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ultimate Medical Academy (UMA) has launched a new online, non-credit Contact Tracing course, helping to fill the nation’s growing need to track and ...

WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will take steps to improve collection of international air passenger contact information to better monitor ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread worldwide, and its airborne transmission makes it easy to infect a person even if there is a lack of symptoms. The Centers for ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Data for contact tracing COVID-19 infections during air travel needs to improve at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with ...

Contact tracing transformed in 2020 from a routine part of public health work to a massive effort to contain COVID-19. Experts from the CDC and public health departments reflect on lessons learned.

The CDC no longer recommends universal COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing, instead encouraging health departments to now prioritize those efforts for high-risk settings. The guidance, ...