Hawaii’s top health officials have turned their much maligned “contact tracing” program over to a new hire, following record numbers of COVID-19 cases and a call for the removal of the state ...

The expanded operation at the Hawaii Convention Center includes an ... number of people to do contact tracing that this was ... Senate COVID-19 Committee that toured the Department of Health ...

A leave request Wednesday from the head of Hawaii’s COVID- 19 contact tracing program citing chain-of-command issues is reinvigorating calls to clean house at the state Department of Health.

Josh Green has criticized health department director Dr. Bruce Anderson and […] HONOLULU (KHON2) — There are renewed calls to drastically increase the state’s capacity to test and contact ...

Contact tracing helps fight the spread of COVID-19, but it is time consuming work that has overwhelmed the state Health Department. Two local apps designed to help contact tracers do their job faster ...

Should Maui experience a surge or second wave in positive COVID-19 cases, the state Department of Health now has access to a new digital contact tracing tool that will help the department quantify ...

Contact tracing helps protect individuals, families, and local communities by letting people know they may have been exposed to COVID-19 and should monitor their health for signs and symptoms of ...

Contact Tracing Survey: U.S. Workforce Surpasses 50,000 But Falls Short Of Need : Shots - Health News The number of people working to stop COVID-19 outbreaks from spreading is far from the level ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - After growing concerns about the state’s overwhelmed contact tracing program, the Health Department is now reaching out to community health centers for help ...

NPR surveyed all 50 states about their contact tracing work. The workforce has barely grown since mid-June, while cases have skyrocketed.