HONOLULU — Acting state epidemiologist Sarah Kemble said the number of state contact tracers will shrink after the end of the year. The state Department of Health said it currently has 103 permanent ...

As Texas recruits an army of people to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus, there is a debate on how large that army should be to help save lives and bring back more normalcy to the state.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Two months into reopening, Texas needs help. In fact, it needs thousands of helpers. At least that’s what Edward Salsberg thinks. Salsberg is a senior researcher at The Mullan ...

Last week, as coronavirus infected a growing number of Oregonians for the fourth week in a row, the Oregon Health Authority shared reassuring news from a survey of county health departments statewide.

An NPR survey of state health departments shows that the national coronavirus contact tracing workforce has tripled in the past six weeks, from 11,142 workers to 37,110. Yet given their current case ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A 13 Investigates review of the city of Houston's multi-million dollar contact tracing effort shows vast improvement in a program the health department is counting on to save ...

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing is downright buzzy, and not always in a good way. Contact tracing is the public health practice of informing people when they've been exposed to ...

The reaction to a plan to effectively close Capron Park Zoo was met with seemingly universal opposition since the plan was released last week. Republican Gubernatorial candidate picks New Bedford City ...