There has been little clarity about how the White House is contact tracing those who may have been exposed at a string of events.

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The White House contact tracing program is too haphazard to pinpoint or halt a COVID-19 outbreak that was rapidly spreading in the U.S. capital city, health experts and city officials said on Tuesday.  Washington reported https://coronavirus.dc.gov/release/coronavirus-data-october-5-2020 105 new cases

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White House contact tracing questioned as COVID-19 spreads in Washington

By Patricia Zengerle, Andrea Shalal and Heather Timmons WASHINGTON - The White House contact tracing program is too haphazard to pinpoint or halt a COVID-19 outbreak that was rapidly spreading in the U.S. capital city, health experts and city officials said on Tuesday. Washington reported https://coronavirus.dc.gov/release/coronavirus-data-october-5-2020 105 new cases of the

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Health experts say the White House is failing to properly contact trace a growing number of positive cases, with President Donald Trump unwilling to lead by example.

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Why the White House is failing to contain its coronavirus outbreak, according to experts

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Sen. Patty Murray demanded answers Tuesday from the Trump administration on the outbreak at the White House and within the president's inner circle, accusing top officials of acting in an "opaque and secretive" manner.In a letter to White House Chief ...

‘Opaque and secretive’: Schumer, Murray demand answers from White House on contact tracing efforts

The White House has declined offers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help investigate the outbreak surrounding President Donald Trump's Covid-19 diagnosis, according to a federal health official.

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The CDC has mobilized a team of experts to contact trace coronavirus cases at the White House, although it appears the team remained unactivated.

CDC team mobilized to help contact trace White House, but unused. Is it too late?

The White House contact tracing program is too haphazard to pinpoint or halt a COVID-19 outbreak that was rapidly spreading in the US capital city, health experts and city officials said on Tuesday.

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Even though the Rose Garden announcement of Appellate Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court may have been a coronavirus superspreader event, the White House has no plans to do any contact tracing while Republicans showed recalcitrance over containing the disease.

White House Not Contact Tracing Potential Coronavirus Superspreader 'Rose Garden Massacre'

WASHINGTON - The White House contact tracing program is too haphazard to pinpoint or halt a COVID-19 outbreak that was rapidly spreading in the U.S. capital city, health experts and city officials said on Tuesday.

The CDC's offer to begin contact tracing occurred almost immediately after the president announced he had contracted coronavirus. The White House declined.

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Tom Skinner, spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), confirmed the White House, on Monday, declined the public health experts’ offer to spearhead contact tracing efforts following President Donald Trump and several aids testing positive for COVID-19. While the CDC is widely considered the nation’s top public health authority for contact tracing, […]

White House declined CDC’s offer to help with contact tracing

When Toronto Public Health announced this weekend that it was temporarily suspending its contact tracing efforts in the city, many wondered what impact that could have on a rapidly growing pandemic.
How effective has contact tracing been in curbing the spread of COVID-19 to this point? And what happens now in Canada's largest city, where daily COVID cases hit201 on Tuesday.

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Politicians, public health officials, and commentators are lambasting the White House's failure to provide adequate contact tracing and guidance for thousands of people whose well-being was jeopardized last week after President Donald Trump traveled to multiple events around the country, at least one of which he participated in even after knowing that he had been exposed to the coronavirus. While the contradictory information shared by the Trump…

'People have a right to be upset': White House refusal to contact trace stirs contempt

In the days after it became clear that White House had suffered a COVID-19 outbreak, many who had been in the building or interacted with the President wondered aloud: why hadn’t they heard from contact tracers?But though the idea of a legion of agents armed with the know-how to trace and detect an outbreak may be comforting, it’s one of a series of misconceptions that surround the idea of contact tracing in the U.S.Though the concept has been s…

White House Outbreak Exposes Contact Tracing-Shaped Hole In US COVID Response

Even as a growing number of Trump's staff members are testing positive, the White House is refusing to conduct contract tracing.

The White House Is Refusing To Conduct Contact Tracing As Trump's COVID Hot Spot Keeps Growing

The White House declined offers from the CDC to help with contact tracing, an official said.