The COVID-19 pandemic has created a need for tens of thousands of contact tracers-- and some colleges are stepping in to help fill that need by offering free introductory online classes open to the ...

A free online course developed by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on the basics of contact tracing has enrolled more than one million people over the past six months, teaching ...

Just a month after San Francisco became the first city in the nation to order residents to stay home to stop the spread of COVID-19, the city has launched an ambitious new effort to try to warn ...

Ongoing coverage of COVID-19, and its impact on Seattle and the technology industry. See all of GeekWire’s special coverage. by Alan Boyle on May 23, 2020 at 9:30 am May 22, 2020 at 8:48 pm The ...

Government agencies and private organizations that are developing contact-tracing applications to help citizens keep informed about their potential risk of infection have failed to provide adequate ...

Public health nurse Lee Cherie Booth conducts a test for COVID-19 outside of the Salt Lake City Public Health Center on April 10, 2020, accompanied by Salt Lake County infectious disease nurse Travis ...

An illustration from a brochure on contact tracing produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New York City has largely relied on social distancing measures to control the spread of ...

The automated contact-tracing system deployed by Google and Apple that was aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 has been, in no uncertain terms, a complete failure. The basic system’s effectiveness ...