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Inadequate testing and protracted delays in producing results have crippled tracking and hampered efforts to contain major outbreaks.Contact tracing in an office at the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County in May.Credit...Lynne Sladky/Associated PressJuly 31, 2020Updated 10:01 a.m. ETIn Arizona’s most populated region, the coronavirus is so ubiquitous that contact tracers have been unable…

'It can be complicated' explains Washtenaw County contact tracerContact tracing is considered a critical tool in the fight to contain coronavirus, but what is it like to do the work?While medical staff are working to save lives from COVID-19, it’s the contact tracers who can actually stop the spread.READ: ‘Answer the phone’: Michigan health officials…

(CNN)Despite hopes for relief this summer, the US is battling the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic -- so much so that across the South and Southwest contact tracing is no longer possible, accordin…

Someone lets call her Person A catches the coronavirus. Its a Monday. She goes about life, unaware her body is incubating a killer. By perhaps Thursday, shes contagious. Only that weekend does she co…

Welcome to the sprint known as contact tracing, the process of reaching potentially exposed people as fast as possible and persuading them to quarantine.The race is key to controlling the pandemic ahead of a vaccine, experts say. But most places across the United States aren’t making public how fast or well they’re running it, leaving…