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    The Many, Maddening Hurdles To Contact Tracing The White House Outbreak

    The coronavirus outbreak originating at the White House last week may have spread cases to dozens of other communities. But tracing related cases and stopping further spread is extremely challenging.
    by Selena Simmons-Duffin Oct 09, 2020 5 minutes
    Numerous people have tested positive after attending an event in the Rose Garden at the White House on Sept. 26 to announce the nomination of Seventh U.S. Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

    The White House's apparent failures to thoroughly contact trace its current coronavirus outbreak has led local health officers to take matters into their own hands.

    The District of Columbia and nine neighboring jurisdictions are calling on White House staff and visitors who might be connected to the recent outbreak there to contact their local health departments.

    "We recommend that if you have worked in the White House in the past two weeks, attended the Supreme Court announcement in the Rose Garden on Saturday, September 26, 2020, and/or have had close contact with others who work in those spaces or attended those events, you should get a test for COVID," the health officers wrote in a letter shared by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser early Thursday morning.

    The authors note that this recommendation is being made based on "our

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