Governments around the world are proposing contact tracing as a way of limiting the spread of coronavirus after lockdown.Contact tracing can be done from memory, but smartphones apps that can automate the process have also been developed.BBC Click's Chris Fox explains what contact tracing is, and some of the methods that have been proposed.See more…
Citing a lack of a coordinated national effort on contact tracing, two congressional Democrats whose states have among the highest cases of COVID-19 are proposing to create a "coronavirus containment corps" to assist state and local health departments with tracing potential victims.The proposal by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Andy Levin of Michigan…
Next up on the “how to get life back to normal” checklist: contact tracing. But it’s not going to be easy. Experts already say states need to wait until coronavirus cases actually start to decline over several weeks before they begin reopening businesses and sending people back to school and work. The US also needs…
Published on Apr 22, 2020Test, trace, and treat have become three major words when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic, but when it comes to stopping a second wave of COVID-19 cases, tracing might be the key. But while other countries have aggressively traced new cases, the United States is still behind, even though companies…
The job of contact tracing can involve detective work. During the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014, a hand-drawn map on the wall of a rural clinic in Liberia showed health workers how to get to a remote village where a woman with Ebola may have traveled. Kelly McEvers/NPR hide caption toggle caption Kelly…
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…