Contact Tracing

San Diego County Public Health officials said Wednesday they are working with tribal lands to investigate positive COVID-19 cases that may be connected to several local casinos.

This tattoo shop would be able to alert customers if anyone became infected with coronavirus through a streamlined process and other businesses are catching on. Christine Kim reports for NBC LA at 6 p.m. Saturday June 20, 2020.

A Chula Vista church under scrutiny for potential health order violations last month is now the focus of a county COVID-19 contact tracing investigation after two people connected to the church tested positive.

Health experts are concerned that protests erupting across the nation and the law enforcement response to them will upend efforts to track and contain the spread of coronavirus just as those efforts were finally getting underway

We’re hearing a lot about ‘contact tracing’ lately, as part of efforts to contain coronavirus. Con artists are aiming to take advantage of it, too.

We’re hearing a lot about contact tracing lately, as part of efforts to contain coronavirus. Con artists are aiming to take advantage of it, too. Consumer investigator Chris Chmura reports.

A demo of a German coronavirus app was released on Friday which authorities hope will allow the country to safely reopen in time for summer tourism.

County officials last week announced it wanted 1,000 people to lead the effort to find and help people who may have come in contact with someone with COVID-19.

The search continues for coronavirus contact tracers in Santa Clara County. Scott Budman reports.

The county is looking to build a workforce of 1,000 people to help investigate cases of COVID-19 and identify who those patients may have exposed.

Scammers pretending to be coronavirus contact tracers are sending text messages to warn people they’ve been exposed to someone with COVID-19 and need to click a link to learn more.

Librarian Lisa Fagundes has spent many years happily surrounded by the fiction books she loves, at her job on the first floor of San Francisco’s Main Library. But now in pandemic times, Fagundes has been tapped for a job that sounds like it was plucked from one of those science fiction titles — she’s now an official “contact tracer.”

Two of the world’s biggest companies, both based in the Bay Area, are setting aside their rivalries to fight the coronavirus. But some healthcare companies are not convinced the new technology is useful in the fight against COVID-19. Scott Budman reports.

As countries around the world edge toward ending lockdowns and restarting their economies and societies, citizens are being more closely monitored

Librarian Lisa Fagundes has spent many years happily surrounded by the fiction books she loves, at her job on the first floor of San Francisco’s Main Library. But now in pandemic times, Fagundes has been tapped for a job that sounds like it was plucked from one of those science fiction titles — she’s now an official “contact tracer.” Joe...

Effective contact tracing is key to mitigating the spread of the coronavirus, experts say. Here’s how it works.

Santa Clara County announced the new focus is to investigate contact tracing in order to get a better grasp at COVID-19 contagion in the area.

California’s ambitious plan to double the current number of coronavirus tests is being paired with a massive campaign to track down every person who may become infected by each new person who tests positive for the virus. Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that as part of statewide plans to reopen businesses, California aims to reassign 20,000 public employees as COVID-19...

UCSF and UCLA will partner with the California Department of Public Health to train thousands of residents in public health contact tracing techniques.

Alameda and Contra Costa counties and the city of San Francisco are assembling teams of “contact tracing” workers to help identify people who’ve come in contact with confirmed novel coronavirus patients in a growing effort to stop the virus’ spread, health officials said this week. “We know this is going to be a big part of our future,” said...