Current Events > White House turns down offers from CDC to help with contact tracing

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https://nbc-2.com/news/health/2020/10/06/white-house-turns-down-offers-from-cdc-to-help-with-contact-tracing/

WASHINGTON / CNN The White House has declined offers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help investigate the recent COVID-19 outbreak that has been taking the West Wing by storm, according to a federal health official.

The offer by the CDC to help with contact tracing occurred almost immediately after the President made public that he has tested positive for coronavirus. Despite the concerns expressed by the CDC, White House officials turned down the offer to help, the official said.

The offer was repeated in a phone call Monday, according to the source.

The White House has shown little indication that it is tracing contacts from those exposed at events like the Supreme Court nomination ceremony where almost no masks were worn and there was no social distancing both at the outdoor event and indoor reception.

Some attendees said they have had no outreach and others have said, even when notified, they were not asked the slate of questions typically used to document who else may have been exposed through contact.

An administration spokesman, Judd Deere, said positive cases are taken seriously.

The White House has plans and procedures in place that incorporate current CDC guidelines and best practices for limiting COVID-19 exposure and has established a robust contact tracing program led by the White House Medical Unit with CDC integration, Deere said in a statement.

In the days following the President and first ladys diagnoses, there has been little clarity about how the White House is contact tracing those who may have been exposed at a string of events, leaving the work to the individuals themselves and ramping up the risk of exponential spread.

The White House has insisted a full contact tracing, consistent with CDC guidelines, had been conducted following Trumps New Jersey fundraiser on Thursday.

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more testing = more cases.

1000 IQ level move from the white house.

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Mezcla posted...

more testing = more cases.

1000 IQ level move from the white house.

which begs the question, why did trump get tested?

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monkmith posted...

which begs the question, why did trump get tested?

He didn't. His makeup team just couldn't apply all 30 layers of Cheeto dust properly due to all the coughing.

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Fuck em, let them fall.

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Trumpism is a death cult. They're probably only days away from all catching covid intentionally and then packing up and moving to Guyana.
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monkmith posted...

which begs the question, why did trump get tested?

Hope Hicks positive test leaked to the press. Trump campaign was going to keep this whole thing under wraps and pretend nothing was wrong until this happened. Also, he was sick enough to go to the hospital, and its not like they can hide that, especially during the campaign season

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If Trump's health turns south again, Hope Hicks is getting fired

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Alpha218 posted...

Hope Hicks positive test leaked to the press. Trump campaign was going to keep this whole thing under wraps and pretend nothing was wrong until this happened. Also, he was sick enough to go to the hospital, and its not like they can hide that, especially during the campaign season

but see, following trumps own reasoning, he'd never have gotten sick if he just never tested.

Theon_Greyjoy posted...

If Trump's health turns south again, Hope Hicks is getting fired

is knob gobbler a job title?

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