NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lorna Thorpe, director of epidemiology at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, on the benefits and disadvantages of contact tracing at this pandemic phase.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced this week that it no longer recommends universal case investigation and contact tracing. In its place, the agency said state, tribal, ...

After three people died on a cruise ship struck by a hantavirus, authorities are actively tracking down 29 people who had left the ship. They’re trying to trace the spread of the virus. It’s a long, ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers reported that backward contact tracing is crucial to suppressing transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS ...

While public contact tracing apps released by governments have attracted much (negative) attention, business contact tracing solutions play a different but hugely important role in slowing the spread ...