In hopes of slowing down the spread of the coronavirus, health departments across the country have turned to contact tracing. Finding those who have been exposed to COVID-19 and monitoring their ...

Q: What is contact tracing? A: Contact tracing is not new to public health. It is a method that has been used to control contagious diseases for decades, including Ebola, meningitis, tuberculosis and ...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, disease investigators in Douglas County had the time to contact people with positive cases of the virus and track their contacts. But as cases rose in the ...

Manoj Jain MD MPH is an infectious disease physician and member of the Memphis and Shelby County Covid-19 Task Force. Sri Velrajan BA, BS is a graduate student at the University of Memphis, School of ...

(WSIL) -- Southern Seven Health Department (S7HD) wants residents to be aware of new changes to the COVID-19 Contact Tracing process that the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) launched. All ...