During the COVID-19 pandemic, Switzerland, like many other countries, relied on contact tracing to identify people likely to have been contaminated by an infected acquaintance. Has this strategy, ...

With a return to in-person residential life, some community members are looking to Princeton’s promise of rigorous COVID-19 safety measures for an assurance of safety — including the University’s ...

Electron microscope image of the virus that causes COVID-19. Photo: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Apple and Google revealed Friday that they’re teaming up to take on one of the ...

BARNSTABLE — As the Massachusetts Community Tracing Collaborative winds down, Barnstable County public health nurses are taking a bigger role in tracing COVID-19 cases and close contacts on Cape Cod.

The risk of catching COVID-19 as calculated by a smartphone app scales with the probability of subsequently testing positive for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, showing that digital contact tracing is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two measles cases with links to Massachusetts have prompted contact tracing. Dr. Todd Ellerin, of South Shore Health, explains ...