Physicians spend 24.6 percent less time with patients in contact isolation than with patients who are not isolated, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers at the University of ...

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When Harvard brought a limited number of undergraduate students back to campus in fall 2020, it promised a robust, in-house contact tracing system would limit exposures to the coronavirus and that ...

A respiratory infection has you feverish, coughing and wheezing -- severely enough to put you in the hospital. You're placed in a private room, which is fine. As sick as you feel, you only vaguely ...

The Spokane Regional Health District will expand its isolation options this fall, after contracting with Catholic Charities to use the Immaculate Heart Retreat Center as an isolation center devoted ...

There’s little hope for top ropes anytime soon, so these wrestling fans are trading leg drops for laptops while in quarantine. Unemployed bandmates Jimi Riddle and Casey Hopkins have been filling ...

With COVID-19 cases still soaring across the U.S., it can be tempting to just ride the winter out on the couch, binging on Netflix. But psychologists say it's important in 2021 for us all to keep up ...

Swift contact tracing kept asymptomatic people from spreading in the community. Extensive contact tracing and isolation were key tools in controlling the spread of COVID-19 in Shenzhen, China, a new ...

The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, and several of his ministers began preventative isolation after coming in close contact with an official infected with coronavirus, the government said ...

Transmission before symptom onset could only be prevented by tracing contacts of confirmed cases and testing (and quarantining) those contacts. Highly effective contact tracing and isolation may be ...