Mar. 16—PLATTSBURGH — Molly Flynn wears the mask of contract tracer as well as senior public health educator at the Clinton County Health Department. Below, Flynn answers 10 questions about the ...

One of the keys to stopping the coronavirus is finding out who has it, tracing every person they’ve had contact with, and warning those people to isolate. The pandemic has taken this little-known job ...

In hopes of slowing down the spread of the coronavirus, health departments across the country have turned to contact tracing. Finding those who have been exposed to COVID-19 and monitoring their ...

Many health experts recommend social distancing, washing your hands and wearing a mask as a way to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Another way to help slow the spread is through contact tracing.

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Health investigators across the U.S. are finding it nearly impossible to keep up with the deluge of new COVID-19 infections and carry out contact tracing efforts that were once seen as a ...