Washington — As governors in some states begin rolling out plans to ease restrictions on residents' activities and allow some businesses to open their doors again, experts and state leaders say broad ...

Step one is case investigation, where a person who has the disease is interviewed. During the current pandemic, that means anyone who has tested positive for COVID-19. An interviewer asks questions ...

A major question mark attached to national coronavirus contact-tracing apps is whether they will function when citizens of one country travel to another. Or will people be asked to download and use ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover innovation within the green/blue industrial revolution. May 29, 2020, 10:16am EDT Jun 20, 2020, 01:56am EDT This article ...

This past Thursday, Catie Kuhn saw that she missed multiple calls from her son's school, Paxon School for Advanced Studies. She needed to pick her son up right away. He had been in contact with ...

As coronavirus cases reach new peaks, surpassing 200,000 cases a day in the United States, public health departments are overwhelmed. Departments are racing to hire yet more contact tracers and some ...

Public health experts are questioning the extent and effectiveness of contact-tracing efforts in South Dakota and across the country, arguing that an inadequate number of investigators and lags in ...

When the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services launched COVID Trace, one of the nation’s first COVID-19 contact-tracing smartphone apps, on Aug. 24, state health authorities “strongly ...

Now, Google and Apple have slightly pulled back the curtain on how this system will be implemented and what precautions they’re taking to ensure user data remains safe. Before you continue reading ...