How does COVID-19 contact tracing work? ... The actual number of contact tracers in the field is 494, including 20% of whom are Black and 34% Hispanic.

As California begins to re-open, the state is ramping up a massive contact-tracing program to identify people who may have been exposed to coronavirus without knowing it. News Channel 3 looks into ...

No One Wants to Pick Up the Phone for an Unfamiliar Number—and It’s Hurting Contact Tracing Now a technological solution is in the works. By Kasra Zarei. Nov 24, 2020 2:02 PM.

Michigan contact tracing efforts are underway, ... of the people the contact-tracers are trying to reach simply aren't answering calls because they are from unfamiliar numbers.

“Contact tracing is the wrong tool for the wrong job at the wrong time,” said Dr. David Lakey, the former state health commissioner of Texas who helped oversee the Ebola response in Dallas in ...

Extended periods of contact tracing were introduced on a trial basis in early December when numbers were at 200 a day, but abandoned when infections started to spike during the third wave.