How the White House refused to contain its COVID-19 outbreak

The Washington Post has a detailed account of how the White House tried to ignore basic public health protocols as Donald Trump held events that turned it into a hotbed of COVID-19 infections:.

It seemed likely that either Jenkins had taken the virus to the White House, potentially infecting others there, or he had become infected in Washington and brought the virus home to South Bend.

There are long-standing protocols for investigating the spread of a virus: contact tracing, or interviewing infected people about their recent interactions and advising those exposed that they should get tested.

Officials say the White House called off early efforts to get to the bottom of the outbreak, including sequencing the genomes of virus samples from infected individuals.

He was initially told that the White House would send contact tracers from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention as part of a multistate investigation - and later learned they were asked to stand down.

To this day, Fox, the local official tasked with contact tracing for the outbreak, has not seen a full list of people from his county who attended the Rose Garden ceremony.

"I have seen so many opportunities not just missed but cavalierly dismissed by this White House," said Fox, citing the president's travel even after learning he'd been in close contact with staff members who tested positive.

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