Screenshot: ContagionContact tracing is a critical tool for containing a disease outbreak. For COVID-19, it’s also a key part of plans like the World Health Organization’s guidelines for easing distancing restrictions. So what is contact tracing and how does it work? has a few scenes that show a dramatized version of contact tracing. Kate Winslet’s…
Contact tracing can help public health officials slow the spread of coronavirus. Angela Lang/CNET For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. Contact tracing has become an important tool for public health officials in the fight against the spread of COVID-19, and organizations around the world are now creating services…
CLOSE A Los Angeles County test is looking for pivotal information about whether people can develop immunity that helps them fight off future infections. USA TODAYA public health expert who led the fight against the Ebola outbreak in Liberia says the United States is downplaying one strategy key to stopping the coronavirus pandemic: contact tracing.Tolbert…
San Francisco unveiled a public health outreach plan Wednesday meant to help the city quickly test and identify people newly infected with the coronavirus, and to track down anyone they may have had contact with who could also become ill. The program is meant to augment the city’s contact tracing efforts, which are a long-standing…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…