Contact Tracing

Contact tracing has long been considered essential by public health experts, but Gov. Ron DeSantis and his advisers — some of whose previous comments are banned from YouTube as misinformation — say it doesn’t work. His office won’t say why he keeps paying for it.

Contact tracing has long been considered essential by public health experts, but Gov. Ron DeSantis and his advisers — some of whose previous comments are banned from YouTube as misinformation — say it doesn’t work. His office won’t say why he keeps paying for it.

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

Miami-Dade County’s new chief medical officer has a suggestion for holiday gatherings in 2020: keep it online. But, Dr. Peter Paige added during a news conference Tuesday, if you must gather, try to do it outside. “Outside versus inside, masks and social distancing — we have to keep that as a priority wherever we are, whether we’re gathering with family…

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

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...

Entertainment venues such as movie theaters, bowling alleys and banquet halls in Miami-Dade County can reopen later this week at 50% capacity.

Entertainment venues such as movie theaters, bowling alleys and banquet halls in Miami-Dade County can reopen later this week at 50% capacity, the mayor announced Wednesday. With the county’s daily COVID-19 infection rate under 5%, Mayor Carlos Gimenez said he will sign an order that will go into effect Friday for the business reopenings. “They must follow the guidelines in…

Movie theaters and bowling alleys are set to reopen in Miami-Dade County.

A growing number of people infected with COVID-19 are refusing to take part in the county contact tracing program, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez told commissioners at a meeting on Tuesday. “It is one of the troubling signs we are hearing from the health department. 50% or more are not participating,” he said. The program, along with the availability of tests,…

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

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.

As we try to stop the spread of the virus, Broward County is now ramping up efforts to add more contact tracers. NBC 6’s Nathalia Ortiz reports.

Miami-Dade County’s mayor has signed off on funding that will provide hundreds of contact tracers with funding amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic – but mayors of the county’s biggest cities want more. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports.

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.”

FIU is conducting a contact tracing study on coronavirus.

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