Contact tracing could be key in halting the spread of hantavirus. Here's how it works

More than two dozen passengers left the cruise ship before the outbreak was identified. The race is on to connect with them ...
The Hill

Why contact tracing alone isn’t enough to address the coronavirus pandemic

Contact tracing is part of the strategy to keep the number of COVID-19 cases down. The United States is hiring and training contact tracers to build up its public health workforce. One public health ...
Homeland Security Today

Everbridge Launches Contact Tracing Solution to Address Privacy Concerns

Critical event management specialist, Everbridge, has launched a new comprehensive software-based solution to help businesses, healthcare facilities and governments automate contact tracing ...
WGNO

Lawmakers address privacy concerns with contact tracing

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVLA/WGMB) — A process public health experts call Louisiana’s best best to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus is sparking privacy concerns from state lawmakers. Contact tracing ...
Wired

Apple and Google Respond to Covid-19 Contact Tracing Concerns

When Google and Apple announced last week that the two companies are building changes into Android and iOS to enable Bluetooth-based Covid-19 contact tracing, they touched off an immediate firestorm ...
MIT Technology Review

Do digital contact tracing apps work? Here’s what you need to know.

In the early days of the covid-19 pandemic, several competing projects launched around a deceptively simple concept: your phone could alert you if you’d crossed paths with someone who later tested ...
kcra.com

Testing, PPE, contact tracing: How Gov. Newsom’s school reopening plan addresses COVID-19 safety

CAREGIVERS, ALL OF US, LARGE AND SMALL. HERE IS WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING TO ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE ANXIETIES, PROVIDE MORE CLARIFICATION, AND REALLY LEAN INTO THE FUTURE. WE ARE CONFIDENT IN OUR ABILITY ...