Health officials in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia are urging people connected with a recent White House Rose Garden event to contact their local health departments and get tested for COVID-19.
In a joint health advisory published Thursday, the officials said “limited contact tracing” has made it difficult to find out the full scale of the White House coronavirus outbreak.
They urged anyone who has worked at the White House in the past two weeks, attended Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination announcement in the Rose Garden or has been in contact with anyone who did to get tested for COVID-19.
The ceremony on Sept. 26 has been referred to as a possible “super-spreader” event after President Trump and roughly two dozen people in his orbit have tested positive for the coronavirus.
But the reluctance of the Trump administration to contact trace means it’s difficult to definitively link the event to the White House’s outbreak.
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