To safely begin reopening the economy, America will need to rely on so-called disease detectives to track the novel coronavirus and contain new emerging outbreaks before they grow out of control. This work, known as “contact tracing,” is critical for state plans to relax social distancing without inviting a sudden resurgence of Covid-19 cases. All…
(CNN)Thousands of Americans could soon join the ranks of disease detectives in one of the most important battles against coronavirus. Contact tracing has helped slow or stop previous epidemics, such as the SARS and Ebola outbreaks. But it's never been more …
Governments around the world are proposing contact tracing as a way of limiting the spread of coronavirus after lockdown.Nations are recruiting thousands of people to do the task manually, but smartphones apps that can automate the process will also have a role to play.BBC Click's Chris Fox explains what contact tracing is, and some of…
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…
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…