The White House declined the CDC's offers to help contact trace the administration's coronavirus outbreak
The CDC reportedly extended offers to contact trace twice, and was turned down both times.
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Alexandra Kelley | Oct. 6, 2020
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Following President Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis, the White House reportedly rejected the CDC’s offers to help contact trace the outbreak.
The cluster of positive cases seems to have stemmed from a crowded event in the Rose Garden.
White House officials have reportedly declined offers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide resources to help contact trace the coronavirus outbreak that infected President Trump, first lady Melania Trump and advisers Hope Hicks and Kellyanne Conway.
USA Today reports that the CDC extended the offer “almost immediately†following Trump’s diagnosis late last week and repeated it over a Monday phone call with the White House Medical Unit.
Contact tracing is an epidemiological tactic used to investigate the source of an outbreak of an infectious disease, and has frequently been supported as one of the best ways of controlling the COVID-19 pandemic.
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