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“The list is names and email addresses. For solid contact tracing, you need city and state, ”said one official. “We basically say the same thing: we want and need more information.”
Officials said the state contacted the White House early Friday after learning of the president’s diagnosis and was told in a “blanket statement” that the “White House Medical Unit is doing all the contact tracing.”
“That really doesn’t satisfy us, particularly with New Jerseyans,” the official said.
Mr. Deere, the White House spokesman, said: “A full contact tracing, consistent with CDC guidelines, was completed for the trip to Bedminster, NJ. The president did not have any interaction with Bedminster staff or guests who would be considered ‘close’ under CDC guidelines (more than 15 minutes and within 6 feet). “
He added: “All White House personnel believed to have been in close contact during this trip have been identified, contacted and recommended to quarantine.”
At the event for Judge Barrett, the guests, few of them wearing masks, mingled both outdoors and indoors, hugging and talking with heads together. Over the next few days, at least eight attendees, including two senators, tested positive. On Monday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany became the latest.
The timing of Trump’s illness diagnosis makes it highly likely that he and the others will be infected on Saturday, medical experts said. Symptoms usually appear about five days after exposure to the virus; Trump began showing symptoms on Thursday, “right on the day,” Dr. Maldonado said.
An outbreak investigation would help identify the source of the infections, said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, who led the CDC under President Barack Obama.
