After college, I really wanted to work with people. After a few jobs in healthcare, I got a job as an STD contact tracer. That eventually led to my current position as a COVID-19 contact tracer. 10 ...

More than 30 million Americans have filed for unemployment since businesses started closing due to the coronavirus pandemic, but a new opportunity can help you get back on your feet. And the best part ...

CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Contact tracing has been around for nearly a century. However for many people it seems like it has been a new word since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Back in the ...

A data breach reported by the Pennsylvania Department of Health on Thursday may have leaked the information of thousands of residents involved in the state's COVID-19 contact tracing program, which ...

HARRISBURG — Employees of a vendor paid to conduct COVID-19 contact tracing in Pennsylvania may have compromised the private information of at least 72,000 people, including their exposure status and ...

Yes, it's time-consuming. No, it's not hard. Yes, you'll learn something. I have a full-time job and no plans to leave it, but when Johns Hopkins launched an online course for contact tracers last ...

Health departments nationwide scaled back their contact tracing in late spring or early summer when covid-19 cases started to decrease as vaccination efforts took center stage. Then delta hit. Now ...

Local schools are overwhelmed by changing guidance on keeping kids in the classroom. Onondaga County is looking at ways to alleviate some stress for local districts. Syracuse, NY — The County is ...

Matt Katz couldn’t be easier to find. He’s a journalist living in Philadelphia, and picks up the phone when strange numbers call. He’d given all his contact information to the company that tested him ...

The Hollidaysburg Area School Board unanimously approved an update to the district’s COVID-19 contact tracing protocols Wednesday. The updated policy says that contact-traced students may remain in ...

It was supposed to have both prevented the worst ravages of the pandemic and given people in lockdown something to do. An army of contact tracers working the phones would find people exposed to the ...