There should be 'enormous' contact tracing of people around Trump, says public health expertt. 2, 2020
By Alexandra Kelly-TheHill.com
Medical experts say they are many questions surrounding the political and public health implications following President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump’s positive coronavirus diagnosis revealed early Friday morning,
The director of the Pandemic Resource and Response Initiative at Columbia University, Dr. Irwin Redlener, says one of the critical tasks that the administration must undertake now is painstaking contact tracing efforts.
As a specialist in studying pandemics, Dr. Redlener estimates that with the earlier positive diagnosis of longtime Trump advisor Hope Hicks, the virus likely incubated in Hicks in mid-September.
He noted that given the large swaths of people in the president’s entourage, they, as well as their families and tangential contacts, need to be notified that they may have been exposed.
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