Contact Tracing

Virginia is testing an app that would alert you if you’ve come into contact with someone who tested positive for the coronavirus. Consumer Reporter Susan Hogan shows how it works.

As D.C., Maryland and Virginia continue through the phases of reopening, one key element to help make us safer is contact tracing. Each health department is hiring hundreds of people and training them to do the job. Is it right for you? More than 400,000 people have already signed up for a free online course offered by Johns Hopkins University…

As D.C., Maryland and Virginia continue the phases of reopening, one key element to help make us safer is contact tracing. Each health department is hiring hundreds of people and training them to do the job. Jodie Fleischer and the News4 I-Team went to contact tracing school to show what it’s all about.

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

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.

States are slowly reopening, but as people let down their guard, some worry we we could see a surge in coronavirus cases. News4’s Doreen Gentzler reports on what scientists say is the key to containing the spread of COVID-19.

A single person can lead to 59,000 additional coronavirus infections over time, according to a recent study. That’s where contact tracers come in. Contact tracers play a big role in reopening the country and preventing future outbreaks, but it’s not easy. They’re trained to interview people to find out if they’re sick, where they’ve been and who they’ve been...

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.”

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

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

The District is hiring 900 contact tracers — essentially disease detectives — whose job is to contact people who have tested positive for the virus and then figure out who they might have come in contact with.

With coronavirus cases increasing, DC leaders are stepping up their contact tracing efforts. News4’s Cory Smith reports.