Late last spring, when the national curve in the US had flattened to about 25,000 new COVID-19 cases a day, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to hire 1,000 contact tracers. The effort, ...
When the coronavirus pandemic began, the health department in Teton County, Wyo., went all in on contact tracing. Everyone at the health department stopped their regular jobs to join the effort, and ...
It's Saturday and Taya Westfield is hard at work at the Johnson County Public Health Department in Iowa City. Surrounded by a handful of co-workers, Westfield is taking calls, building rapport, and ...
State officials and federal agencies warn there’s a new phone scam circulating: Some callers posing as COVID-19 contact tracers try to pry credit card or bank account information from unsuspecting ...
Personal health information (PHI) belonging to tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians has been exposed following a data breach at a Department of Health vendor. Atlanta-based company Insight Global was ...
The rise of the Delta variant is sparking all sorts of memories—the anxiety amid the first Covid wave in spring of 2020, the crushing winter surge, the unceasing debate about “nonpharmaceutical ...
Like many companies, PwC has delayed its reopening until the fall. But a contact tracing app is one part of their return-to-office plan. Contact tracing apps have a major design flaw A tech solution ...