Contact Tracing

Local health districts across Connecticut will be getting money from the CDC to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

No one should have come in person last week to President Donald Trump’s fundraiser at his Bedminster golf club because of the risk of COVID-19 infection, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday. White House officials acknowledged last week they knew of the president’s exposure risk before he traveled to the Garden State for Thursday’s event but allowed it...

Waterbury Arts Magnet School will shift to a remote learning model for the next two days after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19, the district said Monday night. In a letter, Superintendent Dr. Verna Ruffin said the entire school will transition to virtual learning Tuesday and Wednesday. The school building will be cleaned and disinfected while contact tracers inform…

The University of Hartford is utilizing a new way to trace COVID-19 cases and it involves the sewer system. The college is testing wastewater which allows the university to get a general idea of where traces of COVID-19 come from. It also allows leaders to pinpoint where there could be potentially an outbreak of cases. Every week, the college brings…

The University of Hartford is testing the wastewater on campus to be able to detect any increase in COVID-19 infections.

Authorities in Westchester County are warning that two priests and staff member at a local church who tested positive for COVID-19 may have exposed “many people” to the virus over four days of services. The alert from the Westchester County Department of Health identifies Holy Innocents Catholic Church on Bedford Road in Pleasantville as the potential exposure site. Anyone who…

Only a handful of contact tracers working to slow COVID-19 in 125 communities near Chicago speak Spanish, despite significant Hispanic populations

Many parents have questions and concerns about going back to school during the coronavirus pandemic.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo re-upped his oft-repeated call for a country-wide face-covering order Thursday, tweeting bluntly, “There should be a national mask mandate,” amid mounting evidence that shows it effectively fights the virus. At the same time, he’s issuing a renewed plea to New Yorkers, especially young ones, to stick with that precaution and others, citing a “significant’ uptick in...

Technical roadblocks are slowing the launch of contact-tracing apps stateside. Apple and Google rolled out an exposure notification tool in May to Android and iPhone, making it possible for app developers to use Bluetooth to track when devices come close to each other. But government agencies are facing challenges when it comes to creating the app itself.

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...

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

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

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.