contact tracing

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

Tech giants have rolled out new Bluetooth technology to help tackle contact tracing, reports NBC 7’s Alexis Rivas

Have you gotten one of these: An alert from your smartphone telling you that you may have been exposed to COVID? It can be a scary feeling.

The pandemic is still pushing along, which means COVID-19 contact tracers are still hard at work. One Kaiser Permanente doctor says that process hasn’t gotten any easier this year reports NBC 7’s Joe Little

Amid a rise in school sanctioned quarantines, parents are frustrated with school districts’ handling of COVID-19 contact tracing, reports NBC 7’s Rory Devine

Six feet. Fifteen minutes. Those are the measuring sticks used in contact tracing to discover whether someone is at risk of catching COVID-19 from someone else. It’s a process doctors say isn’t easy.

Health investigators across the U.S. are finding it nearly impossible to keep up with the deluge of new COVID-19 infections and carry out contact tracing efforts that were once seen as a pillar of the nation’s pandemic response.

Despite promises from Gov. Gavin Newsom to build an “army” of contact tracers to contain the coronavirus pandemic, a new audit says California mustered less than half of the number promised.

An Associated Press analysis finds that new smartphone technology for alerting people about possible exposure to the coronavirus has been slow to catch on

NBC 7’s Jackie Crea shows how the app works.

UC San Diego Health officials say their campus COVID-19 contact tracing app has worked so well, their expanding user access to more than just students. Click here for instructions on how to download the app and sign up. Officials credit the app with helping to keep COVID-19 cases below 50 during the first month of classes. The app was originally…

Across the U.S., people from immigrant, refugee and Black communities are being hired to bridge the cultural divide in the United States and rebuild public confidence in America’s public health system

As schools grapple with ways to safely return to campus, some high school students in Marin County have created an app for coronavirus contact tracing.

In the midst of a pandemic and the highest unemployment rate since the great depression, contact tracing seems to be one of the jobs of the moment.

Contact tracing seems to be one of the jobs of the moment in the midst of a pandemic. NBC 7’s Jackie Crea spoke with a former contact tracer,and shows us how their boots on the ground are filling a pivotal role in containing this pandemic.

The White House says it is in full contact-tracing mode to find out who else was exposed during the president’s recent travels, reports NBC 7 Investigates’ Mari Payton.

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...

The University of Calfornia San Diego is launching a voluntary pilot program that uses smart-phone technology designed to quickly notify participants if they’ve been exposed to COVID-19.

NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado has more details on the new pilot Google-Apple notification technology to help prevent COVID-19 outbreaks.

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