BUT, 5 INVESTIGATES HAS LEARNED HOW MASSACHUETTS TRACKS THE SPREAD OF THE VIRUS IS ABOUT TO UNDERGO A MAJOR CHANGE MARIA: OUR MIKE BEAUDET FOUND THE BURDEN IS ABOUT TO SHIFT ENTIRELY TO LOCAL ...

IOWA CITY — Johnson County Public Health has shifted its COVID-19 contact tracing efforts, focusing on notification over case investigation of individual infections within the county. As other local ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — Contact tracing responsibility in Illinois is shifting from local health departments to the Illinois Department of Public Health, as counties are struggling to keep up with rising ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Phyllis Schilp, a public health nurse, who has been leading contact tracing efforts in Massachusetts. A Public Health Nurse Leads Contact Tracing Efforts In ...

Soaring COVID-19 infections in Pennsylvania have left state investigators unable to contact trace all positive cases, reflecting an evolving reality and a hampered public health response to the ...

During the pandemic, contact tracing apps kept Americans informed of potential exposure risk with the goal of reducing infections. But did apps like this help reduce the spread of COVID and how might ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Linn County Public Health has ended its COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. Effective Friday, the county public health agency will no longer conduct case investigation and notify ...

Cat Dennison ’21 was among 169 Miami University students who conducted contact tracing interviews and disease investigations for the Butler County General Health District during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In November 2020, the conference room at the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District in Champaign was full of first-contact employees calling people infected with COVID-19 to get a list of contacts to ...

The arrival of the omicron variant of the coronavirus in the U.S. has health officials in some communities reviving contact tracing operations in an attempt to slow and better understand its spread as ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP/Mass.gov) – Massachusetts is ending its program that tracks down people who were in close contact with someone who has COVID-19. The reason, a lack of state-funded workers to ...