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Penn State Bolsters Contact Tracing Efforts Alongside Department Of Health
Penn State is teaming up with the Pennsylvania Department of Health to strengthen its contact tracing processes this fall, the university announced Tuesday. Although plans to launch a contact tracing operation were first shared in a town hall earlier this summer, Penn State provided additional details in a public press release Tuesday afternoon. The system …
Health department urges everyone to answer phone for contact tracers
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Local health experts say contact tracing is a good way to help contain the coronavirus, but some people are not participating. Contact tracing is when health officials work to figure out where a sick person has been and who they have been in contact with so everyone can get tested …
Coronavirus: Government selects Rotorua for ‘CovidCard’ contact tracing technology trial
Rotorua has been selected by the Government for a community-wide trial of ‘CovidCard’ technology which detects and records close contacts using Bluetooth. Since March, Trade Me founder Sam Morgan has been working as part of a team to test the ability of ‘CovidCard’ technology, a low-energy device about the size of a credit card. The …
Contact Tracing Is Failing in Many States. Here’s Why.
In Arizona’s most populated region, the coronavirus is so ubiquitous that contact tracers have been unable to reach a fraction of those infected. In Austin, Tex., the story is much the same. Just as it is in North Carolina, where the state’s health secretary recently told state lawmakers that its tracking program was hiring outside …
Michigan health officials contacting residents about COVID-19 contact
DETROIT – Coronavirus cases are rising in Michigan and the state is trying to ramp up its contact tracing — but it’s hard to trace when you can’t be contacted. Michigan health officials are asking residents to pick up the phone, because it could be information related to COVID-19. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Michigan, …
US coronavirus: Contact tracing is no longer possible across the South due to rapid coronavirus surges, health expert says
“The cases are rising so rapidly, that we cannot even do contact tracing anymore. I don’t see how it’s possible to even do that,” Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of tropical medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Monday. The rapid rise in cases is considered a surge, not a second wave, because …
Seniors to get technology to contact family and friends
This program will get 162 tablets, 24 smart televisions and 10 internet connectivity products, benefiting more than 1,300 seniors NEWS RELEASE BARRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ************************* Funded by the Government of Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program, Connecting Seniors Through Technology aims to provide seniors in our area long-term care and retirement residences with the opportunity …
England’s contact app fiasco exposes limits of technology
When UK ministers announced that they were ditching efforts to develop a bespoke contact-tracing app to help contain the spread of coronavirus, it marked the end of a months-long attempt to find a novel solution to a universal problem. Countries across the world have tried to develop tailored smartphone apps that will alert people when …
The Health 202: U.S. isn’t ready for the contact tracing it needs to stem the coronavirus
with Paulina Firozi The United States is finally doing a better job of identifying Americans who are infected with the novel coronavirus. But its capacity to contact and warn the web of people they potentially exposed to the virus is sorely lacking. Contact tracing — in which those who had contact with infected people are …