Contact Tracing

Contact tracing starts with a phone call from your local health department after you’ve tested positive for COVID-19. “We confirm their identity.  We ask about a few symptoms and we identify close contacts,” explained Mary Day, a nurse practitioner for the Ledge Light Health District in New London. You’ll know the phone call is legitimate when the phone number...

Contact tracing’s been a big buzz word during the pandemic. We went to the experts to find out how it works.

We sat down with some experts at local health districts to talk about contact tracing.

Contact tracing’s been a big buzz word this pandemic. We went to the experts to find out how it works.

Some new research is showing how well Connecticut has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. But despite some favorable findings, experts said that this is no time for people to let their guards down. Researchers with the organization Covid Act Now are using real-time modeling and metrics to figure out where states stand in the battle against COVID-19.  “We need...

Contact tracing apps could help speed up the recovery process through the pandemic, but how much privacy are you willing to jeopardize in the process? “I’m just one of those people that it’s about the health benefit for most people. So I’m not all that concerned about my privacy. That if it we were an at-risk population be healthy...

How much privacy are you willing to jeopardize to help with contact tracing and limiting the spread of COVID-19?

Health experts are concerned that protests erupting across the nation and the law enforcement response to them will upend efforts to track and contain the spread of coronavirus just as those efforts were finally getting underway

A demo of a German coronavirus app was released on Friday which authorities hope will allow the country to safely reopen in time for summer tourism.

Scammers pretending to be coronavirus contact tracers are sending text messages to warn people they’ve been exposed to someone with COVID-19 and need to click a link to learn more.

Librarian Lisa Fagundes has spent many years happily surrounded by the fiction books she loves, at her job on the first floor of San Francisco’s Main Library. But now in pandemic times, Fagundes has been tapped for a job that sounds like it was plucked from one of those science fiction titles — she’s now an official “contact tracer.”

As countries around the world edge toward ending lockdowns and restarting their economies and societies, citizens are being more closely monitored

Effective contact tracing is key to mitigating the spread of the coronavirus, experts say. Here’s how it works.

An expert from the Connecticut Department of Public Health released details of a plan to conduct contact tracing involving people who are positive for COVID-19.

Officials are looking at ways to conduct contact tracing on anyone that tests positive for COVID-19 to help minimize the spread of the virus if we are to reopen.