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 ...

If you’re interested in joining the fight against the novel coronavirus, you can now take a contact tracing course for free. Taught by Johns Hopkins scientist Emily Gurley, PhD, MPH, COVID-19 Contact ...

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 ...

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A new Coursera class developed by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is now available to train contact tracers on the principles of the public health strategy many consider critical ...

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 ...

Contact tracing will be an essential discipline for helping states, countries, and businesses reopen as threats of COVID-19 infections decline. However, many people are confused about what contact ...

As U.S. states begin reopening, health experts are calling for massive investment in contact tracing — identifying and notifying people who have come into close contact with someone who has tested ...

When Ebola ripped through communities in West Africa between 2014 and 2016, Tolbert Nyenswah saw at first hand how health workers extinguished the epidemic by finding and quarantining contacts of ...

One of the best tools we have to slow the spread of the coronavirus is, as you have no doubt heard by now, contact tracing. But what exactly is contact tracing, who does it and how, and do you need to ...