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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Contact tracing efforts for covid-19 cases at colleges and universities in the state have shifted from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to the state Department of Health, ending a joint ...

Tens of thousands of people across the United States have applied for the job of cold-calling strangers who may have been exposed to Covid-19. Here’s what it’s like. By Jacey Fortin When Jessica ...

New Jersey is hiring, as state officials try to build a contact tracing team to improve its response to the coronavirus pandemic. The state will hire at least 1,000 people for “good paying” jobs to ...