Mar. 13—WATERTOWN — Lindsay Pollard's sunny, upbeat voice is a comforting asset as a Contact Tracer connecting with North Country residents exposed to COVID-19. The Connecticut native and her husband, ...

BOSTON — For Alexander Miamen, it involves being a detective, being a public health advocate and even being a dog-walking coordinator. Welcome to the world of a community contact tracer for COVID-19. ...

Proving that there’s no situation in which thieves will not rear their greedy heads, agencies across the country are reporting that phone scammers are now pretending to be health department contact ...

Joanne Rolon-Santiago was looking for something else to do. She works part time as an outreach coordinator at Co-County Wellness Services, a community-based health care nonprofit organization in ...

When the coronavirus pandemic began, the health department in Teton County, Wyo., went all in on contact tracing. Everyone at the health department stopped their regular jobs to join the effort, and ...

Those contact tracer jobs that sounded like a lifeline to workers left unemployed in the midst of the pandemic are gone. A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Health said the state filled all ...

Contact tracing programs around the country have been struggling to keep up with demand during the last several coronavirus surges. Here, contact tracer Cherie Hunter works from her home in Tinley ...