As U.S. unemployment soars to historic levels, the hottest job of the year could be a lifesaver: contact tracing. Containing the coronavirus as the economy gradually reopens has created an urgent need ...

A new, free online class could help you land a job as an in-demand contact tracer. Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health developed a free program to fast-track training and ...

Thousands of Americans could soon join the ranks of disease detectives in one of the most important battles against coronavirus. Contact tracing has helped slow or stop previous epidemics, such as the ...

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An estimated 300,000 contact tracers are needed to help expand testing capacity across the country to trace the trail of the coronavirus exposure. States such as Massachusetts, California, and New ...

Unable to scale contact tracing programs with existing resources and funds, many states have opted to recruit public health graduate students, community organizers, and university faculty. Others are ...

When Mayor Bill de Blasio first announced plans to amass an army of contact tracers last month, Tien thought she’d be a perfect fit for the job. A Brooklyn resident in her mid-thirties, she speaks two ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- With more than a million people unemployed in Illinois, here's a job you can do to be a real asset to your community and you don't need any prior experience. It's COVID-19 contact ...

In this Aug. 6. 2020, file photo, Joseph Ortiz, a contact tracer with New York City's Health + Hospitals battling the coronavirus pandemic, disinfects his tablet after leaving a potential patient's ...